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Dysoxylum beddomei
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Family:
MELIACEAE
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Citation: Dysoxylum beddomei Hiern in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 548. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 178(127). 1915; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 95. 1996; S.S. Jain & S.S.R. Bennet in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 485. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 59. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 57. 2002; N.C. Nair & N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 652. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Akil, Adanta
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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 pale grey, flaking off in thin scales, warty lenticellate; blaze dull yellow; young parts pubescent. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 6.5-23 cm long, stout, angular, swollen at base, pubescent; leaflet 5-9, alternate, estipellate; petiolule to 10 mm, slender, grooved above, pubescent; lamina 6-15 x 3-5 cm, ovate, elliptic-ovate, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, base oblique or cuneate, apex acuminate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 12-20 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, greenish-yellow, subsessile, in axillary few flowered panicles; calyx cupular, shortly 4-lobed, puberulus, subentire; petals 4, 5 x 2.5 mm, oblong, spreading, imbricate; disc tubular, toothed, glabrous, exceeding the ovary; staminal tube shortly toothed, hispid along 4 vertical lines outside; ovary superior, hirsute, 2-celled, ovules 1-2 in each cell; attenuated into a long style; stigma broadly capitate. Fruit a capsule 8 x 6 cm, obovoid, purple or yellow, acute at apex, vertically ribbed, coarsely rugose.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-February
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki, Thrissur
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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):
Green, 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:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Peechi, Vellanimala, Thannikkudy, Mlappara, Orukomban, Pooyamkutty
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