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Decaschistia crotonifolia
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Family:
MALVACEAE
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Citation: Decaschistia crotonifolia Wight & Arn., Prodr. 52. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 332. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 94 (68). 1915; T.K. Paul in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 296. 1993; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 18. 1996; M. Mohanan & A.V.N. Rao in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 398. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 147. 2009.
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Description:
Erect shrubs, 1.5-2.5 cm high; stems woody, pale green to grey, whitish-stellate-tomentose, more so on younger parts. Leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, cordate to rounded at base, serrate or slightly lobed, acute at apex, 3-4 x 1.5-8 cm, stellate-tomentose on both surfaces more so on nerves beneath; midnerve with a basal nectary; petioles to 5 cm long, terete, brown-stellate-tomentose; stipules linear-subulate, ca 1 cm long, stellate-tomentose. Flowers axillary, solitary or 3-6 in racemose clusters due to reduction of upper leaves; pedicels 3-15 mm long, densely stellate-pubescent. Epicalyx lobes linear, 5-10 x 1-1.5 mm, connate at base, pubescent. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed; lobes ovate, 6-8 x 2-3 cm, stellate-hairy on both sides. Corolla 5-6 cm across, yellow with a dark maroon centre. Petals 5, obovate, 3-4 x ca 2.5 cm, connate and adherent to staminal tube at base, densely stellate-pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Staminal column antheriferous throughout; tube ca 2 cm long; anthers purple. Ovary ovoid, ca 4 mm across, pubescent, 10-loculed; locules 1-ovuled; styles ca 2 cm long; stigma capitate, glandular-hairy, brown. Capsules globose-depressed, to 2 cm across, enclosed in calyx, densely stellate-pubescent, 10 valved; seeds reniform, ca 5 x 3 mm, glabrous, brownish black.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-November
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District(s):
Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests and grasslands
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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):
Yellow
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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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