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Flacourtia jangomas
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Family:
FLACOURTIACEAE
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Citation: Flacourtia jangomas (Lour.) Raeusch., Nomencl. Bot. (ed. 3) 290. 1797; R.L. Mitra in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 403. 1993; N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 270. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 98. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 125. 2009.
Stigmarota jangomas Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 634. 1790.
Flacourtia cataphracta Roxb. ex Willd., Sp. Pl. 4: 830. 1806; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 193. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 54(39). 1919.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Loika, Lavalolikka, Luikka
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Puneala plum
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Description:
Small trees, 5-10 m high, dioecious; trunk and old branches thornless; young branches with simple or branched thorns, white-lenticelled, puberulous; bark pale brown to copper-red. Leaves alternate, oblong-ovate to lanceolate, rounded to broadly cuneate at base, subserrate or crenate at margin, obtusely long acuminate at apex, 4-9 x 2.5-5 cm, membranous to chartaceous, glabrous, pinkish brown when young; lateral nerves 4 or 5 pairs; petioles 4-7 mm long, glabrescent. Flowers in axillary, subcorymbose racemes; pedicels very slender, 5-10 mm long. Disc faintly lobed, fleshy, white or orange-yellow. Male flowers: Buds globose, ca 2 mm; stamens numerous, free; filaments ca 2.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers ellipsoid, versatile, extrorse; pistillode absent. Female flowers: Buds ovoid, ca 2.5 mm long; ovary flask-shaped to subglobose, incompletely 4-6 loculed by false septa; ovules 2 in each locule; styles as many as locules, connate at base, recurved and 2-lobed at apex; stigmas 4-6, dilated; fruit a berry, subglobose, angled, apiculate, 1.5-2.5 cm across, scarlet red or dark purple when ripe; stylar column persistent, conic, terminating in 4-8 minute stigmatic points; seeds 8-12, flat.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-April
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Widely cultivated in South East Asia and East Africa
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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, Yellow
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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:
Yes
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Vegetable:
Yes
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Pooyamkutty
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