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Macaranga indica
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Macaranga indica Wight, Ic. t. 1883. 1852; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 446. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1326(927). 1925; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 368. 1984; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 252. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 432. 1990; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 374. 1998; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 449. 2005; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 141. 2007.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Malavetta, Puthatamara, Uppotti, Vatta, Vattakkanni
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Gregarious trees, bark grey, smooth; exudation red, watery; branchlets fulvous tomentose, glaucous. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules large, lateral, densely pubescent, deciduous; petiole 12-22 cm long, stout, pubescent; lamina 15-30 x 12-25 cm, ovate-orbicular or deltoid-ovate, base peltate, apex acuminate, margin entire or toothed, glabrous above and tawny-pubescent, intermingled with yellowish glands beneath; 2 large glands near the petiolar insertion above, coriaceous; 8-10 ribs from base, palmate, prominent; lateral nerves 6-12 pairs, parallel, prominent; intercostae scalariform, prominent, margin glandular. Flowers unisexual, yellow, in axillary panicles having zig-zag branches; bracts small with a large, flat glandular appendage; male flowers: tepals 3, initially connate, later spreading, concave, ovate, valvate, acute, glandular; stamens 6-8, shortly connate below, exserted; anthers 4-celled; female flowers: tepals 4, lanceolate, basally connate at base, valvate, acute, glandular; ovary superior, 2-6-celled, globose, echinate, ovules one in each cell; style lateral; stigma acute. Fruit a capsule, 7-8 mm across, globose, echinate; seeds black.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-December
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District(s):
Idukki, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Degraded forest areas
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Distribution:
South and South East Asia
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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):
Green, 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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Uppupara, Damsite, Angamoozhy, Lock-hert gap, Kaikatty, Padagiri
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