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Aegiceras corniculatum
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Family:
MYRSINACEAE
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Citation: Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Balco, Fl. Philipp. 79. 1837; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 533. 1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 757 (532). 1921; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 393. 1990; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 238. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 219. 1985; Anupama & Sivad., Rheedea 14: 12. 2004; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 403. 2009.
Rhizophora corniculata L., Amoen. Acad. 4: 123. 1759.
Aegiceras majus Gaertn., Fruct. 1: 216. t.46. 1788; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 533. 1882; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 156. 1982.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Pookandel
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Description:
A shrub or small tree, 1.5-7 m tall, usually gregarious, glabrous. Leaves obovate-oblong to obovate, pale green, shining above, glaucous beneath and entire. Petiole 3-6 mm long, stout. Flowers c. 1.5 cm across, usually white and fragrant. Calyx 6-7 mm long, deeply 5-lobed, twisted, glabrous, persistent. Corolla deeply 5-lobed, c twice as long as the calyx, thickish; lobes triangular, acute and reflexed. Stamens 5; filaments somewhat exserted, densely woolly at base; anthers long, transversely septate into many cells. Fruit cylindrical, acute to acuminate, falcate, reddish-brown, surrounded at base by persistent calyx.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-May
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District(s):
Alappuzha, Kasaragode, Kollam, Malappuram, Kozhikkode, Thrissur, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Mangrove forests and marshy areas
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia to Australia
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Aquatic:
Yes
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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
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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:
Nileswar, Payyanur, Kumbolichira
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