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Nothopegia monadelpha
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Family:
ANACARDIACEAE
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Citation: Nothopegia monadelpha (Roxb.) Forman, Kew Bull. 53: 754. 1998.
Blackburnia monadelpha Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 435. 1820.
Pegia ?colebrookeana Wight, Ic. t. 230. 1839.
Nothopegia colebrookeana (Wight) Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat 1: 203. 1850; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 40. 1876; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 265(189). 1918; V. Chandra. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 811. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chorappala, Era, Sonemous
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 12 m high, bark greyish-brown, smooth; exudation white, acrid, branchlets dark, lenticellate, ultimate branchlets pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, 5-15 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-obovate, elliptic-oblong or obovate, apex acuminate, base acute, narrowed or attenuate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; petiole 10-17 mm, stout, glabrous, grooved above; lateral nerves 15-21 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers small, polygamous, greenish-white, 5-6 mm across, in axillary rufous racemes. Calyx small, 4-lobed; lobes orbicular, tomentose, persistent, imbricate. Petals 4, oblong, puberulus inside, densely tomentose outside, suberect with recurving tips; disc annular, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, inserted under the margin of the disc; filaments subulate, glabrous; anthers oblong, introrse. Ovary sessile, superior, ovoid, 1-celled, ovule pendulous from near the top of the cell; style short; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe, 1-2 cm across, fleshy, pinkish-red, globose, acute at apex, pericarp thick, filled with black resin-cells.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-May
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District(s):
Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
South India and Sri Lanka
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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):
Green, 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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Vellanimala, Kumarikulam, Thannikkudy, Orukomban, Karimala, Teerthundamala
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