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Cynometra travancorica
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Caesalpinioideae)
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Citation: Cynometra travancorica Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 316. 1872; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 267. 1876; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 413(293). 1919; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 182. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 27. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 167. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 164. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 108. 1997; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 325. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Koori
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 20 m high, bole shortly buttressed, bark 3-4 mm thick, surface reddish-brown, smooth, lenticellate; blaze reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, 2-foliate; stipules small, free, lateral, cauducous; rachis 3-8 mm, stout, pulvinate, glabrous; petiolule 2-3 mm, opposite; leaflet 8-12 x 2-3 cm, often falcate, ovate-oblong, oblong or lanceolate, unequal sided, base oblique, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent; intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 6-8 mm across, rosy white, in short dense flowered axillary racemes; peduncle puberulous; bracts ovate, 1-3 mm, puberulous and ciliate; bracteole ovate, 2 m long, very narrow, with only few hairs at the tip, inserted near the base of the pedicel; pedicel 2-4.5 mm, slender, pubescent, receptacle 0.25 mm deep; sepals 4, 3 mm long, oblong, reflexed, glabrous; petals 5, 4 mm long, subequal, clawed; stamens 10, alternate long and short, connective cleft at base, very slightly apiculate; filaments filiform; anthers small, versatile; ovary half inferior, semi-lunar, glabrous; stipe 0.8 mm; style 1 mm; stigma capitate. Fruit a pod 2.5-3 cm long, flat, smooth, rugose along the margin, semicircular, the inner suture nearly straight, the outer one widely curved, indehiscent; seed one.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-April
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District(s):
Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Thrissur, Kozhikkode, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Semi-evergreen and 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
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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:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Peechi, Vellanimala, Paravattani, Kallar, Siruvani slopes
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