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Photinia serratifolia var. serratifolia
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Family:
ROSACEAE
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Citation:
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 15 m high, branchlets glabrous, some times hairs when young. Leaves simple, alternate; stipule subulate, lateral, cauducous; petiole 15-30 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 8.5-18 x 3.5-8.5 cm, oblong, elliptic, ovate, elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, base acute to round, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-14 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, secondary lateral present, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, white, 3 mm across, in terminal corymbs; bracts small, subulate, cauducous; calyx obconical, upper half free from the ovary, glabrous; sepals 5, triangular, persistent; petals 5, 3-4.5 x 3-3.5 mm, suborbicular to broadly ovate, shortly but distinctly clawed, slightly hairy inside at base; stamens 16-20, free, inserted on the mouth of the calyx; filaments upto 3 mm; ovary half inferior, hairy on the free top, 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell, sessile; styles 2, free, glabrous. Fruit a drupe, subglobular to obovoid with a more or less flattened apex, upper part of the hypanthium and sepals closely appressed against the top of the fruit; seeds 2-4, obovoid, triquetrous.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-May
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District(s):
Idukki
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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):
White
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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:
Uppermanalar
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