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Mahonia leschenaultii
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Family:
BERBERIDACEAE
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Citation: Mahonia leschenaultii (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) Takeda ex Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 32(23). 1915; Guha Bakshi in B. D. Sharma et al., Fl. India 1: 410. 1993; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 36. 1996; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 44. 1998; N.C. Nair in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 198. 2005.
Berberis leschenaultii Wall. ex Wight & Arn., Prodr. 16. 1834.
Berberis nepalensis Spreng. in L., Syst. Veg. (ed.16) 2: 120. 1825, var. leschenaultii Hook. f. & Thoms. in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 109. 1872.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Manjanathi, Maramanjal, Mullukadambu, Mullumanjanathi
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Description:
Evergreen trees, 4-7 m tall; bark light brown, corky, vertically and horizontally fissured; blaze sulphur yellow. Leaves compound, imparipinnate, verticelled at the tips of branches; rachis 17-33 cm, slender, glabrous, base sheathing with 2 subulate stipules; leaflets 7-17, opposite, sessile; lamina 3-9 x 1-5 cm, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate; base obliquely truncate, rounded, subcordate or very obtuse; apex cuspidate; margin spinose, glabrous, rigid, coriaceous, shining above, pale beneath; 3-5 nerved from the base, raised beneath; secondary laterals 3-5 pairs, pinnate; intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in racemes generally fascicled at the apices of stem, in umbel fashion, erect or oblique, often paniculate, 7.5-40 cm; pedicels 6-16 mm, with 2-3 appressed bracts; sepals 6, imbricate in 2 series; petals 6, imbricate in 2 series; nectaries distinct; stamens 6, free, anthers-cells opening by recurved valves; ovary single celled; ovules 5-6, basal, erect; style stout; stigma peltate. Fruit a berry, 8 mm across, broadly ellipsoid-globose, purple, pruinose, bitter, 3-5 seeded.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
June-December
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Shola 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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Altitude:
-2500
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Localities:
Munnar, Eravikulam
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