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Homalocladium platycladum
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Family:
POLYGONACEAE
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Citation: Homalocladium platycladum (Hook.) L.H.Bailey, Gentes Herb. 2: 58. 1929.
Coccoloba platyclada F. Muell. ex Hook. in Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 5382. 1863.
Polygonum platycladum F.Muell., Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. 2: 73. 1858.
Muehlenbeckia platyclados Meisn., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 23: 313. 1865.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Ribbon Bush, Centipede Plant, Tapeworm Plant
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Description:
An erect, c. 1 m tall shruby plant with broad, flat, thin, articulate, delicately striate, ribbon-like phylloclades. Leaves sessile, membranous, entire, and often lobed at base, 1.5-6.5 cm long. Ochreae 1-2 mm long, ovate, obtuse. Flowers 1-6 in sessile clusters, bracteate, bracts ovate, c.1 mm long. Perianth segments 5, greenish, oblong, 1-1.5 mm long. Stamens 8. Ovary ovoid, 3-angular c. 1 mm long; styles 3. Nuts enclosed in the fleshy deep red or purplish perianth.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-Marsh
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant
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Distribution:
Native of Pacific Islands
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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, Pink
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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:
Yes
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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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