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Maytenus heyneana
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Family:
CELASTRACEAE
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Citation: Maytenus heyneana (Roth) D.C.S. Raju & Babu, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 10: 348. 1968; K. Ramam. in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 122. 2000.
Celastrus heyneana Roth in Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 5: 421. 1819, p.p.
Gymnosporia heyneana Wight & Arn., Prodr. 159. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 630. 1875.
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Description:
Armed shrubs; spines terminating short shoots, also axillary. Leaves alternate, ovate to lanceolate, to 7 x 4 cm, base obtuse, margin serrate, apex acute, retuse; petiole to 1 cm; Cymes to 5 cm; peduncle 1 cm. Flowers 3 mm wide; pedicel to 4 mm. Calyx-lobes 5, ovate. Petals 5, cream, oblong to obovate, 2 mm. Disk lobed. Stamens 5. Ovary immersed in disk; ovules 2 per cell; stigma 3-fid. Capsule obovoid, to 1 cm; seeds 2 per cell; aril fleshy.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-February
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Peninsular India
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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:
Peninsular India
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