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Premna tomentosa
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Family:
VERBENACEAE
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Citation: Premna tomentosa Willd., Sp. Pl. 3: 314. 1800; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 576. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1095(767). 1924; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 368. 1990; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 243. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 242. 2002; Rajendran & Daniel, Indian Verbenaceae 289. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 642. 2009.
Cornutia corymbosa Lam., Encycl. 1: 54. 1783, non Burm.f. 1768.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kozhukkattathekku, Naithekku, Pincha
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 15 m high, bark greyish-brown, smooth; young parts with stellate tomentum. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 20-50 mm long, slender, tomentose; lamina 6-25 x 5-15 cm, broadly ovate, base obtuse or cordate, apex acuminate, margin entire, densely tawny yellow stellately tomentose, yellowish, chartaceous; lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, densely tomentose beneath, intercostae scalariform. Flowers bisexual, yellow, small, in terminal and axillary corymbs, 7 cm long; calyx tubular, 5-ribbed, lobes 5, stellate pubescent; corolla 7.5 mm across, 4 mm long, tube cylindric, hairy, lobes 5, orbicular; stamens 4, didynamous, 1.5 and 2 mm long; anthers rounded, 0.5 mm; ovary truncate, superior, puberulus; style 3 mm; stigma unequally 2 fid. Fruit a drupe, ovoid, 5-6 mm long, 4 mm across, black, hairy; seeds 4.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-April
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
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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):
Creamy
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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:
Alampetty, Keerapady, Dhoni R. F., Malampuzha
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