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Embelia gardneriana
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Family:
MYRSINACEAE
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Citation: Embelia gardneriana Wight, Ic. t. 1208. 1848; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 517. 1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 752(529). 1921; Sasidh. & Anto in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 140. 1999; Biju in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 153. 1999.
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Description:
Climbers; branches clothed with rufous hairs. Leaves alternate, up to 7.5 x 3.5 cm, ovate, coriaceous, crenate, prominently reticulate, rusty-pilose on the nerves beneath or on the branchlets. Inflorescence axillary subumbellate racemes on very short peduncles. Flowers small, white; bracts usually small; bracteoles 0. Calyx free, persistent, 4 or 5 lobed. Corolla-tube none or short; petals 5, oblong, gland-dotted. Stamens 4 or 5; filaments inserted on the corolla, short or elongate; anthers ovate-oblong. Ovary ovoid or globose; ovules few on a subglobose placenta; style short; stigma capitate. Fruit a small globose usually 1-seeded berry, .25 inch in diameter; seed globose, hollowed at the base.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Ecotones of shola-grasslands
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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):
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:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Sispara
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