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Xylopia parvifolia
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Family:
ANNONACEAE
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Citation: Xylopia parvifolia (Wight) Hook.f. & Thoms., Fl. Ind. 125. 1855 & in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 84. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 16(15). 1915; Debika Mitra in B. D. Sharma et al., Fl. India 1: 305. 1993; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 22. 1997; M. Mohanan in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 175. 2005.
Patonia parvifolia Wight, Illustr. 1: 19. 1838.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chanthumaram, Kallupottan, Santhu, Ilapongu
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Small-flowered Xylopia
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Description:
Trees, 15-25 m tall; bole buttressed, bark 5-6 mm thick, grey; blaze brownish; young branches brown pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; lamina 6-10 x 2.5-3 cm. Petiole 5-8 mm, slender, pubescent when young and glabrous at maturity, grooved above; lamina 6-10 x 2.5-3 cm ovate, oblong-lanceolate, base acute, apex acuminate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, shiny above; lateral nerves 8-9 pairs, pinnate, very slender, faint, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-brown, 2-5 together in axillary fascicles, 15-18 mm across; pedicels very short, pubescent; bracts longer than the sepals; sepals 3, connate up to middle, ovate, acute, 1.5-2 x 2.5-3 mm, pubescent out side, glabrous inside; petals 6 (3+3) outer petals linear, slightly clawed and dilated at base, 10-13 x 1.5-2 mm, brown pubescent outside, hairy inside; inner ones a little shorter and narrower, linear, concave and spoon-shaped at base, densely tomentose; stamens numerous, ca. 2 mm long, connectives flat, concealing the anther cells, round, anthers transversely septate; carpels 5, linear, ca. 4 mm long, slightly pubescent, ovules 4-6; style linear, stigma fusiform. Fruit aggregate of berries, green, fruitlets 1-4 together, subsessile, obovoid, blunt at apex, tapering to base, 2.5-3.8 cm long, pubescent, stalk 1-2 mm long, woody; seeds 4-6, oblong.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-April
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District(s):
Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
South India (Kerala) and Sri Lanka
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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):
Yellow, Creamy
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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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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Kattalappara
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