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Tylophora cordifolia
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Family:
ASCLEPIADACEAE
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Citation: Tylophora cordifolia Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 196. 1860; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 44. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 844(593). 1923.
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Description:
Slender twiners; stems always long, nearly glabrous. Leaves opposite, small, ovate-cordate, apiculate. Flowers small, solitary, on capillary peduncles. Calyx 5-partite, glandular within; lobes ovate or lanceolate. Corolla dark purple, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes slightly overlapping to the right; corona-processes compressed, curved to an acuminate point. Anthers very small with an inflexed tip; pollen masses one in each cell, minute, globose or ovoid, waxy, erect or ascending rarely transverse or pendulous from the ascending pedicel. Ovary of 2 carpels. Follicles usually solitary, 2 inch long, slender, glabrous; seeds flattened, ovoid, margined, ending in a silky coma.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
April-August
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District(s):
Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Peninsular India
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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):
Purple
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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:
Peninsular India
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IUCN status:
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