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Glochidion hohenackeri var. johnstonei
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Glochidion hohenackeri (Muell.-Arg.) Bedd. var. johnstonei (Hook. f.) Chakrab. & Gangop., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 19: 210. 1995; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 292. 2002; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 349. 2007.
Glochidion johnstonei Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 314. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1307(914). 1925; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 373. 1998.
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Description:
Trees, to 10 m high; branchlets tawny or grey-tomentellous to sparsely puberulous. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, 7-13 x 1.5-6.5 cm, oblong, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, oblong-ovate or subfalcate, apex acuminate, base oblique, glabrous above, sparsely pilose on major nerves beneath, margin entire, coriaceous; lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent stipules lateral; petiole 2-5 mm, slender, puberulous. Flowers unisexual, yellow. Male flowers: in many flowered axillary clusters; pedicels 3-8 mm long, densely tomentose; tepals 3+3, 3-4 x 0.8-15 mm, lanceolate or oblanceolate, puberulous; stamens 3-4, connate by their connectives in a coloumn; connectives produced. Female flowers: in few flowered axillary clusters; sessile; perianth 1.2-3 x 1.5-3.5 mm, tomentellous to glabrescent, irregularly 4-6 teethed; ovary superior, subglobose, 1 mm across, 4-6 locular, ovules 2 in each cell, tomentellous to glabrous; styles 4-6, usually connate into subglobose or discoid mass, often with minute projection at the corners, sometimes free or connate only at base. Fruit a capsule 2-5 x 6-12 mm, 4-6 locular, depressed, deeply lobed with the lobes bilobulate, puberulous to glabrous, pedicels absent, to 4 mm long.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-April
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki, Thrissur, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Peninsular India
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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):
Pink
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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:
Peninsular India
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IUCN status:
Vulnerable (VU)
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Altitude:
-1500
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Localities:
Vallakkadavu, Vengoli, Nadugani ghats
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