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Julostylis ampumalensis
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Family:
MALVACEAE
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Citation: Julostylis ampumalensis Pradeep & Sivar., Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 34: 282. 1993; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 150. 1996; M. Mohanan & A.V.N. Rao in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 426. 2005.
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Description:
Trees, to 15 m tall; branches slender, terete; young branches stellately rusty tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate; stipules 5 mm long, free, lateral, linear, minutely stellate-hairy, caducous; petiole 2-3 mm long, slender, stellate-tomentose; lamina 6-16× 4-11 cm, broadly ovate, shallowly 3-lobed towards apices; base round or truncate; lobes ovate-triangular, sinuses round; margin entire, serrulate or wavy; 5-ribbed from the base, with a single ovate-elliptic nectary at the base of the midrib beneath, lateral nerves 2-3 pairs, pinnate, prominent; intercostae scalariform. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in axillary and terminal lax panicles; peduncle and pedicel stellately rusty tomentose; pedicel 10 mm long, slender; involucellar bracts 5, 10-13 × 5-6 mm, elliptic-obtuse, connate at base, minutely stellate hairy, nerves raised outside, accrescent; calyx 5-parted, 5 mm long, divided to above the middle, lobes 6.5 × 2.5 mm, ovate-acute, much smaller than involucellar bracts, accrescent; corolla 10 mm across, yellow with a purple centre; petals 5, 8 × 4 mm, narrowly obovate, connate at base, minutely hairy on margins and base; staminal column 4 mm long, yellow, glabrous, 5-toothed at apex, staminiferous towards middle; anthers 10, reniform; filaments 2 mm long, minutely pubescent; ovary superior, 2-3 locular, ovules one in each locule; style 8 mm long, slender, dilated and hirsute towards apex, 2-3 branched; stigma peltate, rugose. Fruit a capsule, 5 mm across, subglobse with an obscure beak at apex, densely stellate tomentose, indehiscent, completely enclosed within accrescent calyx; seeds 3 × 2 mm, reniform, concentrically striated, black
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-January
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Malappuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Moist deciduous and semi-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):
Yellow
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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:
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