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Syzygium myhendrae
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Syzygium myhendrae (Bedd. ex Brandis) Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 478(338). 1919; Gopalan & Henry, Endemic Pl. Agasthiyamala 398. 2000; Sasidh. et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 26: 609. 2002.
Eugenia myhendrae Bedd. ex Brandis, Indian Trees 325. 1906.
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Description:
Trees, to 12 m high, bark greyish; blaze pink; branchlets tetragonous. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 2-5 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 3-7 x 2-2.5 cm, oblanceolate or obovate, base cuneate, apex obtusely acuminate, tip of acumen obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves many, slender, close, parallel, obscure, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerves; intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, small, white, sessile in terminal corymbose cymes of umbellules, branches of inflorescence quadrangular; calyx tube 3 mm, turbinate; lobes 4, round, petals 4, cauducous; stamens many, regularly folded at middle in bud, to 5 mm long; ovary inferior, 2-celled, ovules many; style filiform, shorter than the stamens; stigma simple, acute. Fruit sessile, 7-8 mm across, globose, pink-purple, crowned by persistent calyx limb.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-June
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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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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
900-1800
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