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Pavetta breviflora var. ciliolata
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Family:
RUBIACEAE
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Citation: Pavetta breviflora DC. var. ciliolata Gamble ex Bremek., Feddes Repert. 37: 98. 1934; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1879(1300). 1936; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 140. 1988.
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Description:
Erect shrubs; stem stout, quadrangular, glabrous; bark yellowish. Leaves 4.5-14.0 x 1.0-4.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, acute or acuminate at apex, acute at base, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, ciliate on the nerves beneath; bacterial leaf-galls many on secondary or tertiary nerves, circular (0.5-1.2 mm) or elliptic (1.0-1.5 x 0.5-0.7 mm), more prominent on upper surface; domatia absent; midrib subcanaliculate above; lateral nerves 10-12 pair, alternate or subopposite, more prominent beneath; petioles 0.4-1.6 cm, stout, glabrous; stipules interpetiolar, 10-15 x 3-5 mm, narrowly triangular, coriaceous, scarious at margin. Inflorescence terminal, sessile or subsessile, trichotomously branched, corymbose cymes, 2.5-4.5 cm across, glabrous; bracts 4-7 x 4-6 mm, broadly triangular, cuspidate, membranous, glabrous. Flowers 40-80; pedicels, 2-4 mm, glabrous. Hypanthium 0.5-1.0 x 0.8-1.2 mm, obovoid, glabrous; calyx tube 1.0 x 1.0-1.8 mm, broader above or cylindrical, ciliate outside, glabrous within; teeth 0.4-0.8 0.2-0.6 mm, broadly triangular, ciliate. Corolla tube 4-8 mm long, 0.5-1.2 mm across, cylindrical, glabrous; lobes 3.5-5.0 x 1.0-2.0 mm, oblong, rarely lanceolate, mucronulate or acuminate at apex, glabrous. Filaments ca 0.5 mm, glabrous; anthers 2.2-5.0 mm. Ovary 0.8 x 0.7-1.0 mm; disc 0.5 x 0.7-1.0 mm; style 12-17 mm(rarely 6 mm) long, slender, glabrous below, puberulous above; stigma 1-3 mm, clavate, puberulous. Drupes 5.5-6.0 mm across, globose or subglobose, glabrous, shining, 1-seeded; seeds ca 4.5 mm; exotestal surface rugose; embryo ca 2 mm; radicle ca 1 mm, stout, curved; cotyledons 2, ca 1 x1 mm, equal, suborbicular; plumule minute, enclosed within cotyledons.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen 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):
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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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Altitude:
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Localities:
Damsite
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