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Cordia octandra
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Family:
BORAGINACEAE
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Citation: Cordia octandra A. DC. in DC., Prodr. 9: 477. 1845; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 140. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 889(624). 1923; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 301. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 214. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 260. 1998; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 332. 2005.
Cordia serrata sensu Wall. in Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 333. 1824, non A. Juss. 1830.
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Description:
Small trees, to 10 m high; bark 8.5 mm, pale brown or dark grey, stringy; branchlets sparsely hairy. Leaves simple, subopposite and alternate, estipulate; petiole 20-50 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 5-13 x 3-8 cm, ovate, base acute or rounded, apex acuminate; margin entire or serrate, scabrous, membranous; 3 nerved from base, lateral nerves 3 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers polygamous, white, 8.5 mm across, in terminal dichotomous, long peduncled corymbose cymes; pedicel pilose; calyx 14 mm long, cupular, densely woolly within, sparsely hairy outside, accrescent; corolla 20 mm long, campanulate, lobes 7-9, oblong, obtuse; stamens 8, alternately long and short; filaments shorter than corolla lobes, hairy at base; ovary superior, obovoid, 4-celled, ovule one in each cell; style short or absent; stigma sessile, 2 lobed. Fruit a drupe, 3 x 1.5 cm, ellipsoid, glabrous, acute; seed one.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-December
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District(s):
Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Kollam, Thrissur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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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, Rose
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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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Vazhachal, Kallar, Pamba, Pampa-Sabarimala
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