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Litsea floribunda
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Litsea floribunda (Blume) Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1238(867). 1925; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 347. 1984; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 236. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 395. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 405. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 394. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 314. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 23,31. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 382. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 271. 1997; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 56. 1998; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 587. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 351. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 270. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 270. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 569. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 425. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 701. 2009.
Cylicodaphne floribunda Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1: 387. 1851.
Litsea wightiana Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 177. 1886, quoad descr.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Pattuthali
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Dioecious trees, to 15 high, bark 8-10 mm thick, light brown, smooth, brittle, lenticellate; lenticels horizontal; branchlets brown to black pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, 7.5-28 x 3.7-10.5 cm, elliptic, obovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, apex acute, or acuminate, base acute, margin entire, glabrous above except midrib above and rusty tomentose beneath, coriaceous; petiole 10-15 mm long, stout, pubescent; lateral nerves 10-15 pairs, pinnate, prominent; intercostae subscalariform, prominent. Flowers unisexual, in axillary racemose umbellule; peduncle upto 1 mm long, silky pubescent; bracts 4, orbicular, silky tomentose; flowers 6-8 in an umbellule. Perianth tube turbinate, silky tomentose, lobes 6. Stamens 12, in 4 rows; filaments hairy, those of rows 1 and 2 usually eglandular, those of rows 3 and 4 with 2-glands; anthers 4-celled, introrse; staminodes in female flowers as the stamens of males but those of the outer rows clavate or linear, those of the inner rows subulate and 2 glandular. Ovary half inferior, stigma capitate. Fruit a berry, 12-18 mm long, oblong, seated on a turbinate perianth tube.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-April
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen, semi-evergreen and shola forests
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Distribution:
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, Creamy
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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:
Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
1400-1600
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Localities:
Sholayar, Ponmudi, Kallar, Olikkudy, Mangaladevi, Chenthamara, Pooppara, Kottayali, Damsite, Almost all forests, Manantody, Tirunalli, Chandanathode, Mukkali forests, Karasurymala, Padagiri, Ponmudi, Nadugani ghats, Teppakulam, Pongalapara, Agasthymala p
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