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Medinilla sahyadrica
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Family:
MELASTOMATACEAE
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Citation: Medinilla sahyadrica Sujanapal & Sasidh., Rheedea 15: 109. 2005.
Medinilla fuchioides sensu Shetty & Karthikeyan, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 18: 215. 1976, non Gard. 1847.
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Description:
Epiphytic bushy subshrubs, rarely lithophytic; branches many, crowded to form umbrella shaped canopy; stem woody, terete, lenticellate, warty rugose; leafy node with circular ring of dense woolly hairs. Leaves opposite, 5-10 x 3-5 cm, elliptic-obovate or oblong-obovate, sessile, fleshy, thickly coriaceous, dark green above and yellowish-green below, distantly crenate towards apex, apex retuse or obtuse, base cordate, clasping, 5-9 ribbed, usually 7, yellowish green, depressed or slightly channeled above, raised below, inner ribs sub-above, reaching up to apex, middle pair reaching up to two-third, outer towards the margin, reaching up to one-third, sometimes an outermost pair, prominent below. Cymes compound, hanging down in bunches from nacked nodes below the leaf, 5-9 flowered; peduncle 1-1.5 cm long, thick, terete, reddish, joints brown hairy; bracts and bracteoles 2 x 1 mm, three teethed. Flowers deflexed, pedicellate, bracteolate; pedicel 0.7-1 cm long, terete. Petals 12 mm across, orbicular, erect, amber coloured, fleshy, 4-6 veined. Stamens 8, partially exserted, 1.3-1.5 cm long; filaments yellow, 9-10 mm long; anthers lanceolate, slightly curved, 4-5 mm long, connective dorsally produced to 0.5 mm long blunt spur; theca with two up-curved basal projections, 0.5 mm long. Hypanthium 6-7 mm diameter, campanulate, reddish; style creamy, 1.5-1.8 cm long, straight, narrowed towards apex; stigma small, capitate. Berry globose, 7-9 mm across, reddish with an apical hypanthial limb; seeds many, obovoid, 1.5 mm long, attached to central placenta.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-March
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District(s):
Kollam, Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
Yes
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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):
Red, Rose
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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:
1200-1800
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Localities:
Vellimala
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