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Anacolosa densiflora
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Family:
OLACACEAE
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Citation: Anacolosa densiflora Bedd., Madras J. Lit. Sci. ser. 3, 1: 38. 1864; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 580. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 192(137). 1915; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 111. 1984; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 63. 1995; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 62. 1998; Uniyal in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 2. 2000; N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 672. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kalmanikkam, Kaiadi, Malamkara
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Lofty trees, to 25 m high, bole straight; bark 12-14 mm thick, mottled with yellow brown and white, smooth; blaze pink. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 6-12 mm, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 6-15 x 3.7-5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-acuminate or oblong-lanceolate, base attenuate, cuneate, acute or obtuse, apex acuminate, margin entire, coriaceous glabrous; lateral nerves 4-5 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, 10-12 x 10-12 mm, white, fragrant, in axillary cymes; pedicel 5 mm long; calyx cupular, 5-6 toothed, not accrescent; petals 5-6, 6 x 1, puberulus outside, densely tomentose within; stamens 5-6, opposite to the petals at their base; filaments slender; anthers very small, globose, basifixed, the 2 cells dehiscing longitudinally; disc cup shaped, surrounding the base of the ovary; ovary superior, 1-celled, ovules 2-3, pendulous; style conical, stigma shortly lobed. Fruit a drupe, 10 x 15-18 mm, globose, surrounded by accrescent disc; stone crustaceous; seed pendulous.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-June
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District(s):
Idukki, Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evegreen 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):
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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
-800
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Localities:
Pachakkanam, Vallakkadavu, Pooyamkutty, Thenmalai
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