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Rosa leschenaultiana
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Family:
ROSACEAE
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Citation: Rosa leschenaultiana Red. & Thory ex Wight & Arn., Prodr. 301. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 368. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 444(315). 1919; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 98. 1988; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 177. 1994.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kattursoa
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Spreading, scandent, armed shrub; prickles hooked. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate, to 10 x 8 cm, chartaceous; petiole 2 cm; stipules adnate to petiole base, to 1.5 cm, glandular; leaflets 3 pairs, sharply serrate; terminal leaflet oblong-ovate, to 6 x 3 cm, petiolule 1 cm; laterals oblong-elliptic, to 4.5 x 2.5 cm, subsessile. Flower(s) solitary or in a few-flowered corymbs; pedicel to 3 cm, with copious glands. Calyx flask-shaped, 4 mm wide, very glandular; lobes 5, lanceolate, foliaceous, to 2.5 x 0.6 cm, glandular, reflexed with age. Corolla white, very showy, to 7 cm wide; petals 5, obcordate, 3 cm wide, imbricate. Stamens numerous; filaments 1 cm. Pistils numerous, superior. Ovary 1-celled; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit(cluster of achenes) ovoid; pericarp bony, enclosed in the accrescent fleshy hypanthium; seed with thin testa; endosperm 0.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola forests and grasslands
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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:
Aruvikad, Damsite, Kaviar
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