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Phoebe lanceolata
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Phoebe lanceolata Nees, Syst. Laurin. 109. 1836; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 141. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1228(860). 1925; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 398. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 407. 1990; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 384. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 353. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 272. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 704. 2009.
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 12 m high, bark greyish-brown, smooth, bark yellowish-white or grey, smooth with shallow fissures, exfoliating in thick flakes, fibrous. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate, clustered at the tip of branchlets; lamina 8-25 x 2.5-4.5 cm, lanceolate, elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, base cuneate, apex long acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-13 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint; petiole 5-20 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous. Flowers bisexual, 2-5 mm across, yellowish-green, in axillary, slender panicles. Perianth tube short; lobes 6, ovate, tomentose, unequal, accrescent. Stamens 9 perfect, in 3 rows, those of first and second row introrse, eglandular, those of third row extrorse with 2 large stipitate glands at base; staminodes of row 4 stipitate, cordate; anthers 4-celled. Ovary half inferior, sessile, globose, pubescent; style slender; stigma discoid. Fruit a drupe, 10-12 mm long, ovoid or ellipsoid, glabrous, black; supported by erect perianth lobes.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-March
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki, Kannur, Thrissur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-evergreen and evergreen forests, also in secondary forests
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Distribution:
India and Myanmar
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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):
Yellow
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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:
Sholayar, Thekkady, Karadikkavala, Karimala, Kothala, Pooppara, Munnar, Chandanathode, Pathenthode, Karappa
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