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Syzygium malabaricum
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Syzygium malabaricum (Bedd.) Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 481(340). 1919; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 181. 1984; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 183. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 139. 1998; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 217. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 362. 2009.
Eugenia malabarica Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 199. 1872; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 497. 1879.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kattuchamba
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 12 m high, bark greyish-brown, smooth; blaze dull yellow; branchlets tetragonous. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 6-25 mm, stout, grooved above; lamina 6-13 x 2.2-8 cm, obovate or obcordate, base cuneate, apex obtuse or retuse, margin entire coriaceous, glabrous, nearly glaucous beneath, pellucid-dotted, lateral nerves 8-10 pairs, pinnate, faint, meeting in loops only, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, 2.5 mm across, white, in short branching axillary or lateral cyme; pedicel short; calyx tube turbinate, glabrous, lobes 4, minute, triangular, no thick disc; petals 4, free, orbicular; stamens numerous, bent inwards at the middle when in bud; ovary inferior, 2-celled, ovules many; style 1; stigma simple. Fruit a berry, 5-6 mm across, globose.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-August
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District(s):
Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Thrissur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-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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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Vazhachal, Vallakkadavu, Chenthamara, Kavalappara, Kakki hills
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