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Commiphora caudata var. caudata
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Family:
BURSERACEAE
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Citation: Commiphora caudata (Wight & Arn.) Engl. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 4:27.1883, var. caudata; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 171(122).1915; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 62. 1982; V. Chithra & A.N. Henry in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4:443.1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 60. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 53. 2002; A.N. Henry & V. Chithra in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 632. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 202. 2009.
Protium caudatum Wight & Arn., Prodr. 176. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 530. 1875.
Protium caudatum Wight & Arn. var. roxburghiana (Wight & Arn.) Bennett in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 530. 1875.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Idinjil, Kilimaram, Kilippanjimaram, Kizhingil, Kizhuvam
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Hill mango
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Description:
Unarmed (except on old wood) trees, to 15 m high, bark green with reddish-brown stripes, peeling off in thin scales. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 5-14 cm long, slender, glabrous; leaflets 3-7, opposite, terminal large; petiolule 5-10 mm, slender, glabrous; lamina 2.7-10.5 x 1-5 cm, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, base cuneate, attenuate or acute, apex caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, parallel, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers polygamous, small, greenish-yellow, in lax dichotomous axillary panicles; bracts 2, opposite, glandular-hairy; calyx tube narrowly campanulate, fused with disc, glandular-hairy; lobes 4, as long as tube, deltoid; petals 4, broadly linear, reflexed at apex; disc cupular; stamens 8, free, inserted on the margins of disc, alternately long and short; anthers oblong; ovary superior, oblong or ovoid, attenuate into style, 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a drupe, globose or ellipsoid, red when ripe with two white longitudinal lines, mesocarp yellow, rarely orange, pyrenes ovoid; seeds solitary.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-October
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests, also grown in the plains
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Distribution:
India and Sri Lanka
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow, Red
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Muthuvanala, Chinnar, Kuchimudi
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