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Manilkara roxburghiana
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Family:
SAPOTACEAE
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Citation: Manilkara roxburghiana (Wight) Dubard, Ann. Inst. Bot. Geol. Colon. Marseille 23: 10. f.3. 1915; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 179. 1999.
Mimusops roxburghiana Wight, Ic. t. 1588.1850; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3:548.1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 766(538). 1921.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kannupala
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 18 m high, bark brownish-black, rough; blaze pink; latex milky. Leaves simple, alternate spiral, estipulate; petiole 13-25 mm, slender, glabrous; lamina 5-7 x 3-4.5 cm, oblong, elliptic, base rounded, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves many, pinnate, faint; midrib raised below; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, white, axillary or terminal, 2-5 together; pedicel to 3 cm long; calyx lobes 6, sepals 9 x 4 mm, ovate, hirsute; corolla lobes 18-24, 1 cm long; stamens 6, attached to the corolla tube; filaments short; anthers 3 mm; staminodes alternate with stamens, fimbriate, long, lanceolate, glabrous; ovary 2 mm, superior, villous at base, 6-celled; style 15 mm, subulate. Fruit a berry, 2 cm long, globose, depressed; seeds 3-6.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-March
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous 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):
White
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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:
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Localities:
Chinnar
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