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Cordia wallichii
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Family:
BORAGINACEAE
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Citation: Cordia wallichii G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 379. 1837-1838; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 887(623). 1923; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 185. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 294. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 302. 1990; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 16. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 301. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 438. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 261. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 202. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 549. 2009.
Cordia obliqua Willd. var. wallichii (G. Don) Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 137. 1883.
Cordia obliqua Willd. var. tomentosa Kazmi, J. Arnold. Arbor. 51. 143. 1970.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Avi, Cheruthekku, Kokkamani, Periyaviri, Puzhuventhekku, Virimaram
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Description:
Deciduous trees, to 15 m high, bark brown to brownish-black, corky; branchlets densely pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 30-50 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 6-17 x 5-15 cm, ovate or orbicular, base cordate or truncate, apex subacute, acute or obtuse; margin entire, glabrescent above and woolly beneath, membranous; nerves 3-5 from base, palmate, prominent, lateral nerves 3-5 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers polygamous, creamy white in lax terminal corymbose cymes, 8 x 8 cm; calyx 9 mm long, irregularly splitting into 5 lobes; lobes ovate, acute, hairy; corolla 15 mm long, lobes 6, oblong, acute; stamens 6; filaments villous at base; ovary superior, 2.5 mm; style 7 mm, 4-branched. Fruit a drupe, 2 x 2 cm, depressed-globose, yellow, shining.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-May
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki, Malappuram, Kannur, Thrissur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Moist deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Peninsular India
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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:
Peninsular India
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Peechi, Thekkady, Thunakkadavu, Nadugani ghats, Pathenthode, Tolpetty, Mukkali forests, Thavalam area, Thiruvizhamkunnu, Kavundikal, Nedumkayam, Kanjirakadavu
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