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Tylophora dalzellii
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Family:
ASCLEPIADACEAE
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Citation: Tylophora dalzellii Hook. f, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 43. 1883; Ramach., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 5: 135. 1984; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 286. 1988; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 535. 2009.
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Description:
Twining slender perennial climbers; stem terete, branched, pubescent when young. Leaves opposite, 5-10 x 2.5-6.5 cm, ovate-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate at apex, often mucronate, rounded at base, sparsely pubescent on upper side, at length glabrate, ciliolate on margins; petioles 0.5-2 cm long, grooved, pubescent. Flowers small, reddish-brown, in lateral, many- flowered, branched, sessile or pedunculate, hispid, umbellate cymes; pedicels filiform, glabrous. Calyx hispid, almost divded to the base, lobes 1.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 3 mm long, lobes elliptic-oblong, obtuse; corona process dark coloured, rounded at base and slightly tapering towards the apex of the staminal column. Follicles 7-10 cm long, linear-lanceolate, finely striate, glabrous; seeds 8 mm long, ovate-oblong, coma 2 cm long.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-April
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District(s):
Wayanad, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Deciduous forests
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Distribution:
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):
Pink, Red, Brown
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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:
Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Tirunalli
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