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Schrebera swietenioides
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Family:
OLEACEAE
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Citation: Schrebera swietenioides Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 101.1798; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3:604.1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 792(557). 1923; Ramach. et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 5: 141.1984; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 273. 1988; Ravikumar & Ved, Illustr. Field Guide 100 Red Listed Med. Pl. 337. 2000 Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 186. 2002; P. S. Green, Kew Bull. 58: 271. 2003; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 513. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Malamblasu, Mushkakavriksham, Maggamaram, Manimaram
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Weaver's beam tree
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Description:
Deciduous trees, to 15 m high, bark 0.5 cm, greyish-black, exfoliating in thin irregular scales; blaze pink-red. Leaves compound, imparipinnate, opposite, estipulate; rachis 5-10 cm, slender, pubescent, grooved above; leaflets 7-9, opposite; petiolule 3-30 mm, grooved above, angular, tomentose; lamina 6.5-14 x 3.5-6.5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, ovate, elliptic-obovate, base attenuate or oblique, apex acute, margin entire, glabrous above, villous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, pinnate, prominent, pubescent beneath, slender; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-brown, fragrant, 1 cm, nocturnal, in terminal, trichotomous cymes; calyx obscurely 4-7 toothed, puberulent, accrescent; corolla 4 mm across, slaver shaped, lobes 4-7, rounded, glandular; stamens 2, attached near the top of corolla tube; filaments short; ovary 2-celled, superior, ovules 3-4 in each cell; style 6 mm long, cylindric; stigma shortly bifid. Fruit a capsule, 5 x 2.5 cm, obovoid, loculicidally 2 valved; seeds pendulous, winged.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
May-June
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District(s):
Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Moist deciduous 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, Brown
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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:
500-1000
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Localities:
Kuchimudi, Baveli
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