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Ilex gardneriana
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Family:
AQUIFOLIACEAE
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Citation: Ilex gardneriana Wight, Ic. t. 1217. 1848; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 603. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 200(144). 1915; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 65. 1998; Biju in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 153. 1999; D. Basu in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 57. 2000.
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Description:
Trees, branchlets glabrous, terete. Leaves simple, alternate; petiole 10-20 mm long, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 5-7.5 x 2-2.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, base obtuse or round, apex acuminate, margin entire, revolute, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 7-8 pairs, pinnate, obscure, intercostae reticulate. Flowers unisexual, 5-merous;male flowers: solitary or in fascicles; peduncle ca. 1.2 cm long; pedicel 0.6 cm long, slender; calyx lobes 5, 1.5 x 1 mm, triangular, ciliolate; petals 5, oblong, obtuse, connate at base; stamens as long as petals. Fruit a berry 4.5 x 3 mm, yellowish, glabrous.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-April
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola 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:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Kottamala, Sispara
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