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Ximenia americana
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Family:
OLACACEAE
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Citation: Ximenia americana L., Sp. Pl. 1193 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 574. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 190(135). 1915; N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 678. 2005.
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Description:
Shrubs or trees, 2-4 m tall; branchlets usually spiny. Levaes alternate, crowded, 3-5 × 2-3 cm,ovate, elliptic, or obovate, more or less leathery, base obtuse, apex obtuse, apiculate, mucronulate, or sometimes emarginate; secondary veins 3-5 on each side of midvein; petiole 3-5 mm. Cymes or racemes 1.5-2.5 cm, 3-6-flowered. Pedicel 2-3 mm. Calyx cupular, ca. 1 mm. Petals 4 or 5, white or greenish, oblong, 5-7 mm, inside white-barbate. Stamens 8 or 10. Ovary ovoid-conica Drupe orange, ± globose to ovoid, 2-3 cm in diam.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-June
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Throughout the tropics
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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, Green
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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:
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