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Polyalthia shendurunii
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Family:
ANNONACEAE
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Citation: Polyalthia shendurunii Basha & Sasidh., Rheedea 4: 21. 1994; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 19. 1997; M. Mohanan in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 167. 2005.
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Description:
Trees to 15 m tall; bole with warty tubercles; bark smooth, brownish-black. Leaves simple, alternate distichous, estipulate; petiole 5-10 mm long, stout, pubescent; lamina 15-26 x 6-8.5 cm, elliptic, obovate, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate; base rounded or truncate; apex acuminate, acumen to 3 cm long, margin entire, glabrous, midrib impressed and channelled above, lateral veins 10-14 pairs, pinnate, raised beneath; intercostae subscalariform. Flowers bisexual, greenish to yellow, on twigs solitary and or up to 10 in fascicles on tubercles on the trunk; pedicels 3-5 cm long and 2-3 mm thick, tomentose; bract 3-4 x 2.5-3 mm towards the lower half of the pedicel, ovate-acute, tomentose; sepals 3, 1.5-2 x 1-1.3 cm, deltoid-ovate, acuminate, reflexed, connate at base, persistent; petals 6 (3+3) subequal; outer slightly smaller, oblong, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, minutely rugose and appressed-tomentose on both sides, greenish-yellow to yellow, inner 8-9 x 1.5-2 cm; stamens numerous, closely arranged, 3 mm long; anthers and connectives hirsute, more on the ventral surface, appendage glabrous, anther cells concealed below the overlapping connectives; carpels many, each 2.5 mm long; ovule solitary, basal; style indistinct; stigma orbicular, depressed at middle, margins shortly lobed, glabrous. Fruit aggregate of berries, pedicel 4-5 mm across; fruitlets to 7, 3 x 2.5 cm, oblong-ovoid, glabrous; stalk ca.1.8 cm long; seed oblong, 2.8 x 1.8 cm.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-May
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District(s):
Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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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):
Green
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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:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Rosemala, Kallar
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