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Cryptocarya lawsonii
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Cryptocarya lawsonii Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1925: 127. 1925 & Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1218(853). 1925; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 235. 1988; Biju in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 160. 1999.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chembalamaram
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Lofty trees; branchlets glabrous lenticellate, black. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 10-12 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 7-12.5 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, base acute, apex obtuse, emarginate or somewhat acute, margin entire, glabrous, purple-glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint; reticulations areolate. Flowers bisexual, minute, in terminal and axillary panicles of 9 cm long; peduncle and pedicel slender, slightly fulvous-pubescent; bract and bracteoles small, soon deciduous; perianth tube ultimately narrowed at the top; lobes 6 in 2 rows, subequal; stamens 9 perfect, in 3 rows, those of the 2 outer series with eglandular filaments and introrse anthers, those of the third series with 2 glandular filaments and extrorse anthers; those of the fourth series replaced by 3 stipitate staminodes; connective often produced, of second and third series obtuse; anthers 2-celled; ovary half inferior, sessile, enclosed in the tube; style short, exserted. Fruit a drupe 30-37 x 15-18 mm, ovoid, black, longitudinally ribbed.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
April-June
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola 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):
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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:
Sispara, Valiyaparathode
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