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Pavetta hohenackeri
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Family:
RUBIACEAE
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Citation: Pavetta hohenackeri Bremek., Feddes Repert. 37: 98. 1934; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1879(1300). 1936; Biju in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 158. 1999; Rout & Deb, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 41: 112. 1999.
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Description:
Erect branched shrubs; stem slender, corky, terete, glabrous. Leaves opposite, 7.0-16.2 x 1.8-4.1 cm, narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, acuminate at apex, cuneate or attenuated at base, membranous, glabrous; bacterial leaf-galls few to many on secondary or more finer nerves, circular, more prominent on upper surface; domatia absent; lateral nerves 7-9 pair, slender, alternate, more prominent beneath; petioles 0.8-2.0 cm, slender, glabrous; stipules persistent, interpetiolar, 8-12 x 3-4 mm, narrowly triangular, acute at apex, subcoriaceous, scarious, glabrous, with colleters within; colleters many, sessile, feathery; trichomes absent. Inflorescence terminal, peduncled, trichotomously branched, loosely corymbose cymes, 5-7 cm across, glabrous; peduncles 4.5-6.0 cm, slender, glabrous; bracts 5-7 x 3-4 mm, membranous, glabrous. Flowers 15-36; pedicels 5-20 mm long, slender, glabrous; Hypanthium ca 1 x 1 mm, obovoid, glabrous; calyx tube 0.7-0.8 x 1.5 mm, broader above, glabrous; teeth 0.4-0.5 x 0.2-0.3 mm, narrowly triangular, acute at apex, glabrous. Corolla tube 14-18 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm across, cylindrical, glabrous outside, pubescent within. Staminal filaments 1.0-1.5 mm, puberulous; anthers ca 7 mm. Ovary ca 0.8 x 0.8 mm; disc ca 0.6 x 0.8 mm; style 28-31 mm long, slender, glabrous below, puberulous above; stigma 1-2 mm, simple or slightly notched, puberulous.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-April
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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:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
-2200
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Localities:
Sispara
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