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Diospyros sulcata
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Family:
EBENACEAE
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Citation: Diospyros sulcata Bourd., For. Trees Travancore 225. 1908; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 777(546). 1923; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Diospyros 229. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kari
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Description:
Dioecious trees, bark blackish-grey, smooth. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 12-19 mm long, glabrous; lamina 15.2 x 5.5 cm, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, pellucid, coriaceous. Flowers unisexual; male flowers not known; female flower; solitary or 2-5 together, sessile axillary or on the old wood, 5-merous; staminodes 5, ovary superior, 10-celled, ovule 1 in each cell, covered with rusty tomentum; stigma 5. Fruit a berry 3 x 2.5 cm, a truncate cone, apex at first covered with rusty tomentum, at length glabrous, marked with 8-10 deep longitudinal grooves; calyx green, coriaceous, some what enlarged; endosperm equable.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Pathanamthitta
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-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):
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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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