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Ficus talbotii
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Family:
MORACEAE
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Citation: Ficus talbotii King, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 1: 51. tt.63 & 84. 1887; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 512. 1888; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1363(953). 1928; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 277. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 380. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 357. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 433. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 755. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 449. 1990; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 395. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 299. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 313. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 465. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 775. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Vellayal
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen epiphytic trees, to 30 m high; aerial roots none; bark 10-12 mm thick, surface green, smooth; blaze dull yellow; exudation milky; branchlets 1.5-3 mm thick, brown. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, stipulate; stipules 5 mm long, lateral, ovate, pubescent, cauducous; petiole 15-30 mm, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 5-12 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic, ovate, elliptic-ovate or ovate-oblong, base cuneate or acute, apex acuminate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; 3-ribbed from base, lateral nerves 8-10 pairs, parallel, looped near the margin, secondary laterals faint, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia, sessile, in axillary pairs, depressed globose; basal bracts 3, 3-5 mm, ovate-concave, obtuse, glabrous or appressedly puberulous, persistent, orifice circular, plane or slightly sunken, closed by 3 flat apical bracts in a disc of 1 mm wide; internal bristles few, minute, brownish; flowers of 4 kinds; male flowers disperse, few, shorter than the gall flowers; tepals 3-4, free, spathulate with white edges, glabrous; stamen 1, hardly exserted; filament 0.3 mm; anther oblong, parallel, unequal; female flowers sessile; tepals 3-4, red, free, ovate-subacute, with white edges, ovary superior, ovoid, globose, yellowish; style 1 mm, tapering; stigma simple; gall flowers similar, pedicellate. Synconium glabose, 0.5-0.6 cm across.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-April
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kasaragode, Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Kannur, Malappuram, Kozhikkode, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola and semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
India, Sri Lanka and Indo-China
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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):
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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:
Vellappara, Karadikkavala, Vengoli, Aikdau, Parappa, Tirunalli, Mukkali forests
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