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Eucalyptus grandis
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Eucalyptus grandis Hill ex Maid. Forest Fl. n.s. Wales 1: 79. 1903 & Crit. Rev. Eucalypt. 4: 338. 1920; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 185. 1996; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 61. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 140. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 127. 1999; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 213. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 365. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Grandis
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Flooded Gum, Rose Gum
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Description:
Trees to 50 m high; bark white, smooth. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate [seedling leaf opposite for 4 or 5 pairs]; petiole to 30 mm long, slender, glabrous; juvenile leaves 10-14 x 5.5-8.5 cm; adult leaves 10-16 x 2-3 cm, ovate, falcate or lanceolate, base oblique, obtuse, attenuate or subacute, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous, gland-dotted; lateral nerves many, pinnate, faint, looped near the margin forming intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, white, in 7-11 flowered axillary umbels; pedicels to 3.5 mm; hypanthium obconical, to 5 mm, glaucous, ribbed; operculum hemispherical or beaked, to 4 mm; stamens many, 2-7 mm, with a distal adaxial gland; ovary inferior, adnate to the hypanthium, 3-4-celled, ovules many; style simple, stigma capitate. Fruit a capsule, 5-8 x 4-6 mm, sessile or pedicellate, pyriform, 4 or 5 valved, often glaucous, disc narrow; seeds many.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-April
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District(s):
Idukki, Thrissur, Pathanamthitta, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Raised in plantations in the High Ranges
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Distribution:
Native of Australia
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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:
Yes
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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:
Chinnar, Plapally, Devicolam
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