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Meineckia longipes
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Meineckia longipes (Wight) Webster, Acta Bot. Neerl. 14: 356. 1965; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 376. 1998; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 360. 2007.
Peltandra longipes Wight, Ic. t. 1891. 1852.
Phyllanthus longipes (Wight) Muell.-Arg., Linnaea 32: 10. 1863; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 287. 1887.
Neopeltandra longipes (Wight) Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1286(900). 1925.
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Description:
Shrubs with slender branchlets. Leaves alternate, bifarious, membranous, 6-11 x 2-4 cm, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base acute or obtuse, penninerved; petiole 1 cm long; stipule ovate, cordate at base, white. Male flowers 1 mm across, in racemes of 5-12 mm long; bracts 1 mm long, ciliate; sepals 5, 1 mm long, orbicular; stamens 5, combined into a column at base. Female flowers solitary, in the upper axils of the branchlets, peduncles 4 cm long, slender; sepals 3 x 2 mm, ovate, ovary 3-celled; styles 3, bifid. Capsule 8 x 8 mm, globose, glabrous; seeds reniform, rugose.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-January
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District(s):
Idukki, Kozhikkode, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-evergreen 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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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
1200-1800
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Localities:
Inchippara, Aruvioda
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