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Ilex walkeri
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Family:
AQUIFOLIACEAE
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Citation: Ilex walkeri Wight & Gard. ex Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 184. 1860; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 600. 1875, p.p.; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 54. 1988; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 36. 1998; D. Basu in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 72. 2000; M. Reema et al. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 694. 2005.
Ilex thwaitesii Loes. ex Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 200(143). 1915.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Noola
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Shrub or small trees; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, elliptic-obovate, cuneate to obtuse at base, subentire and recurved at margin, mucronate or retuse at apex, coriaceous or membranous and glabrous; lateral nerves 2 or 3 pairs; petioles ca 2.5 mm long; stipules subulate-deltoid, to 7.5 mm long, subpersistent. Inflorescences umbels; peduncles and pedicels short in both sexes. Flowers 4 or 5-merous. Calyx 4-lobed; lobes subulate, deltoid and glabrous. Petals 4 or 5, connate at base, orbicular or ovate, ca 2.5 x 1.25-4.7 mm. Stamens 4 or 5, included. Ovary 5-celled; stigma 5-lobed. Drupes globose, ca 4 mm, red; pyrenes 4 or 5, 3-gonous, hard.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-May
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District(s):
Idukki, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola forests
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Distribution:
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):
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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-2000
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Localities:
Kanthaloor forests, Vattavada, Sispara
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