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Cordia gharaf
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Family:
BORAGINACEAE
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Citation: Cordia gharaf (Forssk.) Ehrenb. ex Asch., Stizungsber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 46. 1879; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 204. 1999.
Cornus gharaf Forssk., Fl. Aeg.-Arab. 95. 1775.
Cordia rothii Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 4: 798. 1819; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 138. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 888(624). 1923.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Narivirayan
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Tamil name(s):
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Description:
Small trees, to 10 m high, bark grey or brownish-grey with deep longitudinal furrows, smooth, peeling of in thin linear strips; young branches brown tomentose. Leaves simple, subopposite or alternate, estipulate; petiole 7-20 mm, slender, tomentose; lamina 4-10 x 2.5-5 cm, oblanceolate, orbicular or ovate, base acute or obtuse, apex obtuse or rounded; margin entire, scabrous with white cystoliths above and tomentose beneath, chartaceous; nerves 3-5 from base, palmate, lateral nerves 3-4 pairs, pinnate, puberulent beneath, slender, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint. Flowers polygamous, creamy white, in axillary or terminal cymes to 7 cm long; calyx tube 7 mm, tomentose, lobes 5; corolla 8 mm across, lobes 5, recurved; stamens 5; filaments 5 mm, hairy at the base, anthers 2 mm; ovary superior, 1.5 mm, ovoid, 4-celled, ovules one in each cell; style 6 mm. Fruit a drupe, 1-1.2 cm long, ovoid, acute; seed one.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-March
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
India, Sri Lanka, Arabia, North Africa and Pakistan
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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):
White
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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:
Chinnar
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