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Ardisia missionis
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Family:
MYRSINACEAE
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Citation: Ardisia missionis Wall. ex A. DC. in DC., Prodr. 8: 130.1844; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3:519.1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 756(531). 1921; Ramach. et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 1: 93. 1980; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 261. 1988; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 490. 2009.
Ardisia courtallensis Wight, Ic. t. 1215. 1848.
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Description:
Large shrubs to small trees. Leaves alternate, up to 19 x 8.5 cm, obovate to lanceolate, acute at apex, rounded or more or less auricled at base. Flowers ca 1.2 cm long, purple. Berries ca 0.6 cm across, red, globose, glabrous.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-August
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District(s):
Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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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):
Pink
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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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Altitude:
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Localities:
Panoth, Kannoth
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