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Actinodaphne maderaspatana
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Actinodaphne maderaspatana Bedd. ex Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 149. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1231(861). 1925; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 314. 1995.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Thali, Tyoli, Mungali
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees. Leaves 4-8 in a whorl, penninerved, up to 23 x 6 cm, oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous, glaucous beneath, chartaceous; nerves 8-10 pairs, very oblique; petioles .8-1.2 cm long, stout. Flowers small, dioecious, in dense globose silkily tomentose clusters, females very shortly peduncled; bracts imbricate, caducous. Perianth-tube short; lobes 6, subequal. Stamens in male flowers 9, those of the 1st and 2nd row opposite the perianth-lobes, those of the 3rd row opposite those of the 1st, filaments 2-glandular; anthers all oblong, introrse, 4-celled, filaments slender. Staminodes in female flowers also 9, those of the 1st and 2nd rows spathulate or linear, those of the 3rd row linear and 2-glandular. Ovary in female flowers ovoid, attenuate into the style; stigma dilated; in male flowers 0 or a pistillode. Fruit a berry.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-February
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District(s):
Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen 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):
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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:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Ettapadappu, Kulathupuzha
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