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Symplocos pulchra ssp. villosa
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Family:
SYMPLOCACEAE
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Citation: Symplocos pulchra Wight ssp. villosa (Brand.) Nooteb., Rev. Symploca. 266. 1975; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 235. 1998.
Symplocos villosa Brand. in Engl., Pflanzenreich Symploc. 63. 1901; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 784(551). 1921.
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Description:
Trees, to 6 m high; branchlets villous. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 5-20 mm long, slender, hirsute; lamina 9-19 x 3-5 cm, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin serrate, adpressed hairy below, green when dry, membranous; lateral nerves 6-13 pairs, pinnate, prominent, pale brown, hirsute; intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, white, shortly peduncled; bracts many; calyx tube adnate to the ovary, lobes 5, sepals acute, hairy; corolla 7 mm across; corolla 5 lobed; stamens many seriate, adnate to the corolla tube; anthers short, ovary inferior, ovary inferior, ovules 2-3 in each cell, pendulous from the inner angle, seeds 1-3, oblong. Fruit a drupe, 12 mm long, white-villous.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-April
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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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