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Memecylon sisparense
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Family:
MELASTOMATACEAE
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Citation: Memecylon sisparense Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1919: 227. 1919 & Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 505(356). 1919; Biju in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 159. 1999; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 63. 2000; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 370. 2009.
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Description:
Large shrubs or small trees; branchlets glabrous. Leaves opposite, 3-7.5 x 3-4 cm, oblong or ovate-oblong, entire or slightly revolute at margins, rounded or slightly cordate at base, acute-obtuse at apex, lateral nerves 5-paired, inconspicuous; sessile or shortly petioled. Flowers fascicled in single or very short-peduncled cymes on lateral tubercles, or rarely axillary, bluish-red, c. 2.5 cm across; pedicels 3-4 mm long. Calyx campanulate, 2-2.5 mm long, shortly 4 or 5-toothed; teeth acute, c. 1 mm long. Petals 4, ovate, bluish-red, 1-1.5 x 1-1.5 mm. Stamens 8, equal; filaments c. 1 mm long, broad at base; anthers short. Ovary 1-celled; ovules 8; style linear, c. 2 mm long. Fruit a globose or ellipsoid berry, 1-seeded.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-January
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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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:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
-2050
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Localities:
Sispara, Vellarimala
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