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Mallotus repandus
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Mallotus repandus (Willd.) Muell.-Arg., Linnaea 34:197.1805; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5:442.1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1321(924). 1925; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 343. 1985; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 420. 1994; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 629. 1997; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 150. 2007; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 640. 2009.
Croton repandus Willd. in Neue Schriff. Freunde Berlin 4: 206. 1803.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Thavatti
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Large scandent or subscandent shrubs with thorns on the trunk; branchlets stellate-pubescent. Leaves 4.5-10 x 4-8.7 cm, ovate or ovate-deltoid, base subcordate or truncate, margins entire or somewhat sinuate-toothed, apex obtuse, acute or acuminate, glabrescent above, densely stellate-pubescent and closely covered with small glands beneath, basally 3-ribbed; petiole 2.5-6 cm long. Male flowers in terminal panicled racemes; tepals 3-5, c. 3 mm long, suborbicular or lanceolate, concave, tomentose, glandular within; stamens many. Female flowers green, in simple racemes; tepals linear, caducous; ovary 2-lobed, tomentose, 2-celled; stigma plumose. Capsule 1-1.2 cm across, 2-valved, densely fulvous-tomentose and glandular without. Seeds subglobose, black.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-January
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District(s):
Alappuzha, Kasaragode, Malappuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Scrub forests near the sea coast
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Distribution:
India, China and Malesia
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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
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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:
Sreekantapuram, Nellikuth, Nulayakadkavu
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