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Pamburus missionis
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Family:
RUTACEAE
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Citation: Pamburus missionis (Wall. ex Wight) Swingle, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 6: 338. 1916 & Citrus Ind. 1: 263. 1967; K.N. Nair & M.P. Nayar in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 304. 1997.
Limonia missionis Wall. ex Wight, Ic. t. 175. 1839.
Atalantia missionis (Wall. ex Wight) Oliv., J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 5. Suppl. 2: 25. 1861; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 513. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 160(114). 1915.
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 12 m high; spines straight, solitary or in pairs; bark grey, longitudinally fissured, lenticellate; inner bark straw to pinkish; blaze yellowish; branchlets at first green, angular, compressed, the innovation dull or fuscous; later cylindric. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 8-15 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 4.5-12.5 x 2-5.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base oblique, acute or cuneate, apex round or emarginate, margin entire or crenulate, undulate, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, slender, pinnate, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, small, white, fragrant, in axillary racemes; pedicels slender, glabrous; sepals 4 or 5, deltoid, glandular, glabrous; petals 4 or 5, free, oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, recurved, prominently nerved, glandular, glabrous, pure white; stamens 8 or 10, subequal, filaments free, subulate; anthers linear-oblong, cordate; disc obscure; ovary on a short gynophore, superior, 4-5-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style stout; stigma capitate or truncate, glandular. Fruit a berry, globose, orange-coloured when ripe, glandular; seeds 4-10, embedded in mucilage.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-September
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District(s):
Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Occasionally grown in church premises in the plains
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Distribution:
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):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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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:
Umikuppan
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