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Dialium travancoricum
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Caesalpinioideae)
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Citation: Dialium travancoricum Bourd., Indian For. 30: 243. 1904; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 404(286). 1919; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 163. 1984; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 28. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 167. 1994; Sasidh., Higher Plants of Indian Sub-Continent 8: 209. 1998.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Malampuli
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 30 m high, bark pale brown, smooth, blaze yellow turning to pale brown, exudation red, scanty. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate; stipules small, lateral; rachis 10-15 cm, slender, glabrous, pulvinate; leaflets 5-11, subopposite or alternate, estipellate; petiolule 4-7 mm, slender; lamina 5-7.6 x 1.8-3.2 cm, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, base round or acute, apex caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous, lateral nerves 11-14 pairs, pinnate, prominent, regular, secondary laterals seen; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, 2-3 mm long, brown, in axillary or terminal fulvous-pubescent panicles; bracts and bracteoles small, cauducous; calyx tube short, divided to base; lobes 5, petalloid, imbricate; petals absent; stamens 2, free; filaments short; anthers erect, oblong; ovary half inferior, sessile, oblique, hairy; ovules 2, style subulate; stigma small, terminal. Fruit a pod 2-2.2 cm broad, ovoid, globose, dark velvety-brown, indehiscent, shell thin, brittle; endocarp spongy, red; seed one, more or less compressed, pale brown, thin.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-October
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District(s):
Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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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):
Brown
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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:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Ponmudi
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