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Xylosma longifolia
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Family:
FLACOURTIACEAE
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Citation: Xylosma longifolia Clos in Ann. Sci. Nat. 4, 8: 231. 1857; R.L. Mitra in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 436. 1993; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 125. 2009.
Xylosma latifolium Hook.f. & Thoms. in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 194. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 53(38). 1915; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 50. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 62. 1990; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 61. 1997; N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 282. 2005.
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Description:
Medium sized trees. Wood scented. Leaves 5-12 cm long, glabrous, elliptic, oblong to lanceolate; margin serrate; apex acute to shortly acuminate; short petioled. Flowers in short branched clustered racemes. In male flowers sepals 4-6, 1-2 mm long, ovate. Anthers dorsifixed. In female flowers sepals 4-6, imbricate; pedicels pubescent. Style short; stigma lobed. Fruit globose, 3-4 mm in diameter, black. Seeds 2 mm long, oblong to obovoid.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
June-July
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District(s):
Malappuram, Palakkad, Kannur, Wayanad
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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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Altitude:
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Localities:
Chandanathode, Mukkali forests, Ampumala
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