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Microtropis densiflora
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Family:
CELASTRACEAE
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Citation: Microtropis densiflora Wight, Ic. t. 1052. 1846; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 614. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 207(149). 1918.
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Description:
Straggling shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, to 7.5 x 2.5 cm. entire, more or less elliptic, obtuse. Flowers in axillary or extra-axillary peduncled cymes; peduncles very short, stout. Sepals 5, imbricate, often unequal. Petals 5, roundish-elliptic, more or less connate at the base with the back of the disk. Stamens 5, inserted on the disk. Ovary free, ovoid or conical, imperfectly 2-3 celled; style short; stigma minutely 2-4 lobed; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral. Capsule narrowly oblong, 1-celled, 2-valved, acute at both ends; seed erect, stipitate.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-April
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola 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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