|
|
| |
Pavetta nemoralis
|
| |
|
| |
Family:
RUBIACEAE
|
| |
Citation: Pavetta nemoralis Bremek., Feddes Repert. 37: 94. 1934; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1878(1300). 1936; Rout & Deb, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 41: 152. 1999.
|
| |
Malayalam Name(s):
|
| |
Tamil name(s):
|
| |
English name(s):
|
| |
Description:
Undershrubs ca 0.6 m high, erect, branched; stem stout, terete, glabrous, internodes very short. Leaves opposite, petiolate or subsessile, congested on stem, 4.5-16.0 x 1.6-6.5 cm, narrowly obovate, acuminate at apex, acute at base, coriaceous, glabrous: bacterial leaf-galls few on secondary or tertiary nerves, circular, 0.3-0.5 mm across, more prominent on lower surface; domatia absent; lateral nerves 7-9 pair, alternate or subopposite, more prominent beneath; petioles 0.2-0.5 cm , glabrous; stipules persistent, interpetiolar, ca 3 x 3 mm, triangular, shortly cuspidate, coriaceous, glabrous outside, with colleters inside; colleters few at the base of stipules inside, sessile, feathery; trichomes absent. Inflorescence terminal, sessile, trichotomously branched, compact corymbose cymes on slender axillary branches ca 6 cm across, puberulous; bracts ca 3 x 4 mm, cuspidate, membranous, glabrous. Flowers 90-100; pedicels 0.5-2.0 mm, stout, puberulous. Hypanthium ca 1.0 x 0.6 mm, obovoid, puberulous; calyx tube ca 1.0 x 1.5 mm, broader above, puberulous outside, glabrous within; teeth 1.0-1.2 x 1.0-1.2 mm, broadly triangular, acute at apex, puberulous outside, glabrous within. Corolla tube ca 15 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm across, cylindrical, glabrous outside, pubescent within; lobes ca 9.5 x 3.0 mm, oblong at apex,, glabrous. Staminal filaments ca 1 mm, slender, glabrous; anthers ca 6 mm. Ovary ca 0.7 x 0.5 mm; disc ca 0.5 x 0.5 mm; style ca 30 mm, slender, glabrous; stigma ca 1.5 mm, simple, clavate, puberulous.
|
| |
Habit:
Shrub
|
| |
Flowering & Fruiting:
November-
|
| |
District(s):
Ernakulam
|
| |
Medicinal:
|
| |
Habitat:
Evergreen forests
|
| |
Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
|
| |
Aquatic:
No
|
| |
Epiphyte(s):
No
|
| |
Saprophyte:
No
|
| |
Stem parasite:
No
|
| |
Root parasite:
No
|
| |
Flower colour(s):
|
| |
Weed:
No
|
| |
Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
|
| |
Exotic:
No
|
| |
Garden:
No
|
| |
Edible:
No
|
| |
Vegetable:
No
|
| |
Endemic to:
Kerala
|
| |
IUCN status:
Extinct (EX)
|
| |
Altitude:
-900
|
| |
Localities:
Cochin
|
|