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Toxocarpus beddomei
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Family:
ASCLEPIADACEAE
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Citation: Toxocarpus beddomei Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1922: 119. 1922; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 830(583). 1923.
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Description:
Slender climbers. Leaves opposite, up to 10 x 4cm, ovate, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate at base, glabrous, smooth and pale when dry; main nerves 7 pairs. Calyx very small, 5-lobed, with or without minute scales at the base within; corolla-tube short, .8 cm long, villous within; corona scales longer than the stamens, obtuse. Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla; filaments connate; anthers small, minutely fimbriate at tip. Fruit of 2 divaricate follicular mericarps; seeds oblong, flattened, tipped with a silky coma.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-May
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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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):
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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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