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Humboldtia laurifolia
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Caesalpinioideae)
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Citation: Humboldtia laurifolia Vahl, Symb. Bot. 3: 106. t. 56. 1794; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 273. 1876; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 411(291). 1919; Sanjappa, Blumea 31: 335. 1986.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Little Amherstia
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Description:
Trees, to about 10 m tall; young stems glabrous, often swollen and inhabited by ants; leaves pinnate, alternate, rachis about 1-20 cm long, glabrous or nearly so; leaflets 3-5 pairs, ovate to ovate-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, about 4-15 cm long, 2-5.5 cm wide, acuminate at the apex, obliquely rounded to cuneate at the base, glabrous, nitid above, puberulent beneath, usually glabrous at maturity; stipules leaflike above the point of insertion, about 2-3.5 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, acute, the lower portion falcate. Inflorescences axillary, racemose or paniculate, 8-12 cm long; bracts deltoid, about 4 mm long; bracteoles oblong-spathulate, 6-7 mm long; bracts deltoid, about 4 mm long; bracteoles oblong-spathulate, 6-7 mm long. Calyx usually reddish or orangish with tube about 3 mm long, segments 8-10 mm long, subequal. Petals 5, white, 10-12 mm long. Stamens exserted to about 12-20 mm long. Fruit puberulent or subglabrous when young, glabrous at maturity, ellipsoid, compressed, 5-10 cm long, 2.5-3 cm wide; seeds 3-4.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-June
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District(s):
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Wet evergreen forests
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Distribution:
South India and Sri Lanka
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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:
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IUCN status:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
-600
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Localities:
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