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Diospyros barberi
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Family:
EBENACEAE
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Citation: Diospyros barberi Ramas., J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 10: 47. t.34. 1914; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 774(544). 1923; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Diospyros 50. 2005.
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Description:
Small trees, 2-5 m tall; stem striated, glabrous or glabrescent, lenticellate; branchlets and young leaves appressedly pubescent. Leaves alternate, simple, 1.7-10 x 0.6-2.7 cm, ovate-oblong or lanceolate-elliptic, glabrous, shining above, dull and punctate beneath, cuneate at base, entire, obtuse-acuminate, acumen up to 1.5 cm long, penninerved; midrib prominent and raised beneath, sunken or grooved above, hirsute beneath when young and glabrous when old, glabrous above; petiole up to 1 cm long, hirsute in young leaves, glabrescent-glabrous when old, grooved adaxially; lateral nerves obscure, finely reticulate. Male flowers in short cymes; female flowers solitary with large leathery folded foliaceous calyx-lobes. Calyx tube pot-shaped up to 4 mm in buds, wrinkled, sparsely hairy without, glabrous within; lobes minute, margin ciliate, adnate to the ovary at base. Fruit globose, ca 4 x 4 cm, pubescent.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-September
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
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):
Yellow, 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:
Vulnerable (VU)
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