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Aporosa fusiformis
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Aporosa fusiformis Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 288. 1861; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 351. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1309(916). 1925; Chakrab. & Gangop., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 17: 160. 1993; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 48. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 365. 1998; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 310. 2007; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 722. 2009.
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Description:
Trees, to 8 m high; bark brown, smooth; branchlets terete, brown to greyish glabrous. Leaves simple alternate, 3-18 x 1.5-8 cm, obovate, suborbicular or broadly elliptic, apex apiculate or obtuse, round or retuse, base cuneate, acute, round or obtuse, entire and often minutely glandular-notched along margins, glabrous, often glossy above, coriaceous; stipule 6 mm long, lateral, falcate; petiole 5-25 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lateral nerves 4-7 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Male flowers: in 1-3 cm long axillary, dense flowered, catkin-like spikes; bracts 0.3-2 x 0.5-3.5 mm, broadly ovate, ciliate; tepals 4-5, 1-1.2 x 0.4-0.6 mm, triangular to oblong, acute, shortly connate; stamens 2-3, 2.5-3 mm long; filaments free; anthers suborbicular, didymous. Female flowers: in axillary few flowered fascicles of 3 cm long; tepals 4, ca.1.5 x 1.5 mm, suborbicular, ciliate, deciduous; ovary superior, ovoid-ellipsoid, densely tawny-puberulous, soon glabrous, 2-locular; ovules 2 in each cell; style 2, 3-3.5 mm long; column 1-1.5 mm long; stigma 2-lobed, coarsely plumose. Fruit a capsule 12-15 x 8-10 mm, ellipsoid or fusiform, glabrous, thin walled or sometimes slightly fleshy; seeds 1 or 2.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-April
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District(s):
Idukki, Wayanad, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
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:
600-1400
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Localities:
Puthussery, Munnar
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