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Mallotus atrovirens
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Mallotus atrovirens Muell.-Arg., Linnaea 34: 195. 1865; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 440. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1322(925). 1925; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 260. 1982; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 363. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 721. 1990; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 406. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 627. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 294. 2002; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 145. 2007; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 639. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 743. 2009.
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Description:
Small trees, to 7 mm high, bark ash-grey; blaze-dull yellow, branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple. opposite; stipules interpetiolar; petiole 5-20 mm long, stout, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 5.5-15 x 2-6 cm, elliptic-obovate or obovate, base acute or cuneate, apex acute or shortly acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above, yellow glandular beneath, chartaceous; lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellow, in axillary and terminal racemes; pedicels yellow glandular; perianth globose, glabrescent, densely glandular, separating into 3-5 lobes; ovary 2-4-celled, ovules one in each cell; stigma sessile, 2, plumose; stamens many, exserted, free. Fruit a capsule 5 x 7 mm, 2-lobed, smooth, yellow glandular; style deciduous; seeds 2, plano-convex or hemispherical, 3.5 x 4 mm; smooth.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-July
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kottayam, Alappuzha, Malappuram, Kozhikkode, Thrissur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Along riverbanks in semi-evergreen forests, also in the plains
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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):
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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Vulnerable (VU)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Vazhachal, Muthalakkuzhi, Nilambur, Canoli, Mavelikkara
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