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Cotoneaster buxifolius
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Family:
ROSACEAE
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Citation: Cotoneaster buxifolius Wall. ex Wight, Ic. t. 992. 1845; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 387. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 446(316). 1919.
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Description:
Intricately branched shrub from a woody bole; branchlets rigid, downy. Leaves elliptic-ovate, 10 x 0.4 cm, coriaceous, base acute, margin recurved, apex acute, apiculate, glabrescent above, densely white, downy-tomentose below; petiole 2 mm. Inflorescence 2-6-flowered; bracts linear, 2 mm. Sepals 5, triangular, 2 mm, pubescent outside. Petals 5, pink, orbicular, 2 mm wide. Stamens c. 20; filaments subequal. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules 2, basal; styles 2, slender, 1.2 mm. Drupe globose, 8 mm wide; seeds 4, ovoid, 4 mm.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-June
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Montane scrub jungle
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Distribution:
Endemic to 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
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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:
Western Ghats
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