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Litsea oleoides
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Litsea oleoides (Meisner) Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 175. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1236(865). 1925.
Tetranthera oleoides Meisner in DC., Prodr. 15: 195. 1864.
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Description:
Dioecious trees, to 25 m high, bark 8-10 mm thick; brown, smooth, slightly rugose; blaze yellowish-brown. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 10-30 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 6.5-17 x 3-7.5 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, base acute, apex acute or obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, reddish-brown beneath when dry, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, pinnate, obscure, intercostae obscure. Flowers unisexual, yellowish, in umbellules, in axillary racemes upto 6 cm long; peuncles to 6 mm long; bracts orbicular, pubescent; perianth short; lobes 6, 2.5 x 3 mm, ovate, obtuse, pubescent; stamens 9, in 3 rows, all filaments with sessile glands at the base, filaments hairy; staminodes 9, in 3-series, glandular at base; ovary half inferior, papillose. Fruit a berry, 2-2.5 cm across, subtended by the cupular perianth, red with white spots.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-April
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
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:
Endangered (EN)
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