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Dysoxylum binectariferum
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Family:
MELIACEAE
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Citation: Dysoxylum binectariferum (Roxb.) Hook. f. ex Bedd., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 25: 212. 1866; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 546. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 178(127). 1915; S.S. Jain & S.S.R. Bennet in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 486. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 59. 1998; N.C. Nair & N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 652. 2005.
Guarea binectarifera Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2:240.1832.
Dysoxylum macrocarpum Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 150.1871.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Akil, Karakil
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Description:
Trees, to 25 m high, bark yellowish-grey; blaze creamy-yellow; young parts and inflorescence minutely pubescent. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 12.5-19 cm long, stout, angular, swollen at base, pubescent; leaflets 5-9, alternate, estipellate; petiolule 4-10 mm long, stout, pubescent; lamina 6-17 x 2.5-8 cm, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic-oblong or elliptic, base oblique, acute or cuneate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, dark green above, pale beneath; lateral nerves 6-14 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 7-9 x 10 mm, white, in axillary panicles; pedicels short, articulated; calyx cupular, 3 x 5 mm, subentire, nearly half of the length of petals, coriaceous, pubescent; petals 4, 10 x 3 mm, oblong, minutely puberulus, velvety; staminal tube 1 cm long, cylindric, mealy, 4-angled, terminating in 8 obscurely 2-fid teeth, glabrous; anthers 8, included; disc surrounding and twice as long as the ovary, glabrous inside, puberulous outside, 8 toothed; ovary superior, ribbed, villous, 4-celled; ovules 2 in each cell ;attenuated into the style; stigma hemispheric, truncate. Fruit a capsule 5-8 x 6 cm, red, obovoid, depressed at apex, smooth; seeds 4, 5 x 2.5 cm, dark purple with yellow hilum and white aril, shiny.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-January
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
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):
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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Uppermanalar, Eravangalar
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