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Alphonsea sclerocarpa
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Family:
ANNONACEAE
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Citation: Alphonsea sclerocarpa Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 11. 1858; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 89. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 23(16). 1915; Debika Mitra in B. D. Sharma et al., Fl. India 1: 211. 1993; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 11. 1999; M. Mohanan in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 133. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Thutta
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Small trees 10-15 m, braches rugose, glabrous; branchlets drooping. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, estipulate; petiole 6-8 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 3.5-10 x 1.5-4 cm, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic ovate; base cuneate or attenuate; apex obtuse, entire, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 5-10 pairs, slender, pinnate, prominent; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, greenish-yellow, fascicled on very short axillary peduncle or in leaf opposed cymes; peduncle 15 mm long; pedicel 3-6 mm long, pubescent; sepals 3, 1 x 1 mm, united at base, orbicular, reflexed, pubescent; petals 6(3+3) ovate, acute, ochraceous, outer and inner whorls subequal 9 x 4 mm, base pouched, tip slightly recurved, pubescent; torus terete; stamens 15-25, 1-2 mm long, sessile, connectives flat at top, not concealing the anthers; carpels 3-6, oblong, ca. 2 mm long, muricate; ovules ca.8 in 2 rows; style short, glabrous; stigma sessile, capitate. Fruits aggregate of berries, 3-4 x 2-3 cm, subglobose, 3-5 in a cluster, rugose, minutely fulvous tomentose, yellow, stalk 5-8 mm long, stout; seeds 6, biseriate, red.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-October
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District(s):
Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests and also in sacred groves
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Distribution:
South India 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
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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:
Chinnar, Alampetty
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