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Drypetes confertiflora
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Drypetes confertiflora (Hook.f.) Pax & Hoffm. in Engl., Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Phyllanthoid.-Phyllanth. 246. 1922; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 401. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 286. 1997; Chakrab. et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 21: 259. 1997; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 330. 2007.
Cyclostemon confertiflorus Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 341. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1302(911). 1925.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kaduvapidukkan
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 25 m high; bark greyish, smooth; branchlets glabrous, brownish, terete. Leaves simple, alternate, 6-22 x 2.5-7.5 cm, oblong or elliptic-oblong, apex obtusely acuminate, base oblique, margin entire or distantly serrate, glabrous and glossy, coriaceous; stipules lateral, small, caducous; petiole 5-12 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lateral nerves 7-10 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, axillary but usually in clusters on old wood. Male flowers: pedicels 4-5 mm long; tepals 5-6, 4-6 × 3.5-5.5 mm, suborbicular, white, ciliate; stamens 15-20; filaments glabrous; inserted around disc; anthers oblong. Disc impressed, large, glabrous, radiately ribbed with inflexed marginal lobe. Female flowers: nearly sessile; ovary superior, brown tomentose, 2-celled, ovules 2. Fruit a drupe, 3.5-5 cm across, subglobose, some what flattened, pubescent, 2-locular; endocarp fleshy.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-May
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District(s):
Thrissur, Kollam, Malappuram, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen and 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):
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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Altitude:
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Localities:
Peechi, Vellanimala, Vazhani, Rosemala
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