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Gluta travancorica
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Family:
ANACARDIACEAE
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Citation: Gluta travancorica Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 60. 1870; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 22. 1876; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 261(186). 1918; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 128. 1984; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 113. 1989; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 128. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 84. 1995; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 79. 1997; D. Chandra & S.K. Mukh. in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 456. 2000; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 179. 2002; V. Chandra. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 801. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 250. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chenkurinji, Thodappa
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Red-wood tree
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 35 m high, bark 6-8 mm thick, greyish-brown, smooth; blaze pink; exudation black, acrid. Leaves simple, alternate, crowded at the tips of branchlets, estipulate; petiole 10-20 mm, stout, glabrous, winged; lamina 8-18 x 3.5-7 cm, elliptic-ovate, obovate-spathulate or spathulate, base cuneate or attenuate, apex obtuse, sometimes emarginate; margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 13-18 pairs, pinnate, prominent; secondary laterals prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, cream coloured, 8 mm across, in axillary and terminal panicles; calyx spathaceous, splitting irregularly, deciduous; petals 4-6, inserted on the disc and adnate with it below, imbricate, spreading in flower; disc elongate, cylindric; stamens 4-6, inserted on the disc; filaments filiform; anthers dorsifixed; ovary obliquely ovoid, superior, apocarpous, sessile or stipitate, pubescent, 1-celled, 1-ovuled, pendulous; style lateral, filiform; stigma simple. Fruit a drupe, 2.5-3.5 cm across, globose, brown; pericarp thick-scurfy; seed adherent to the pericarp.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-January
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District(s):
Kottayam, Idukki, Kollam, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Near Threatened (NT)
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Altitude:
600-1100
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Localities:
Kallar, Choondippara, Muthikulam forests, Vattapoyil, Kottaramvachapara, Kaviar, Pooyamkutty, Rockwood, Attayar, Meenmutty, Athirumala
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