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Drypetes sepiaria
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Drypetes sepiaria (Wight & Arn.) Pax & Hoffm. in Engl., Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Phyllanthoid.-Phyllanth. 271. 1922; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 364. 1984; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 281. 1999; Chakrab. et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 21: 272. 1997; Kumar et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 26: 142. 2002; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 333. 2007; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 627. 2009.
Hemicyclia sepiaria Wight & Arn., Edinb. New Phil. J. 14: 297. 1833; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 337. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1299(909). 1925.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Veeramaram, Vellakasavu
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 15 m high, bark grey, thin, smooth; branchlets yellowish or blackish, terete. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules small, caducous; petiole 3-8 mm, stout, puberulent; lamina 2-9 x 1.5-4.5 cm, ovate, elliptic, ovate-oblong, ovate-elliptic or orbicular, base round or cordate, apex obtuse or round and retuse, margin entire or crenate, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, shining; lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, slender, pinnate, obscure, ascending, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers unisexual, yellowish, in axillary clusters; male flowers: pedicel 4-7 mm, pubescent; tepals 4, 3-4 x 2.5-3.5 mm, small, concave, ciliate, obtuse, imbricate; stamens 6-10; filaments 2 mm, free; anthers oblong; disc disciform or shortly cupular; female flowers: pedicel 1-10 mm long, pubescent; tepals 4, 2-4 x 1.7-3.5 mm, small, concave, ciliate; disc annular, crenate; ovary ovoid, 1-1.5 mm across, 1-locular, ovules 2; style 1; stigma broad, cupular, peltate, fimbriate. Fruit a drupe 8 mm across, globose, glabrous, red; epicarp crinkled; seed 1, arillate.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-April
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha, Kollam, Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry and moist deciduous forests, also the sacred groves in the plains
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Distribution:
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-1000
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Localities:
Champakkad, Chinnar, Kalavoor
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