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Eugenia terpnophylla
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Eugenia terpnophylla Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 114. 1859; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 503. 1879; Santhosh Kumar & Yeragi, Rheedea 13: 39. 2003.
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Description:
Small trees, branchlets pale brown, terete; young shoots fulvous-tomentose. Leaves opposite, 5-12 x 1.5-4.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, cuneate at base, obtusely caudate-acuminate at apex, hardly revolute at margin, thinly chartaceous, drying pale brown; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, slender and raised beneath, obscure above, intramarginal nerves obscurely looped, tertiary nerves obscurely and laxly reticulate, midrib very slender, prominent beneath; petiole to 10 mm long, slender. Flowers white, on short bracteate peduncles in axillary clusters; bracts and bracteoles linear, 1.5-2 mm long; peduncle to 0.5 cm long, fulvous-tomentose; pedicels slender, to 5 mm long, terete. Calyx to 3 mm long, companulate; lobes 4, deltoid, acute at apex, 3 x 2 mm, fulvous-tomentose. Petals 4, narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse at apex, 4 x 2 mm, ciliate along the margins. Stamens many, inserted on the calyx limb; filaments filiform, 3-6.5 mm long; anthers elliptic, to 0.5 mm long. Ovary 2-celled, to 2 mm long, fulvous-tomentose; ovules many in each cell, in axile placentation; style slender, to 4 mm long, glabrous. Berry globose, to 9mm across, crowded with calyx segments; seed(s) 1-4.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-October
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
South India (Kerala) 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:
700-1000
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Localities:
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