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Ardisia rhomboidea
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Family:
MYRSINACEAE
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Citation: Ardisia rhomboidea Wight, Ic. t. 1213. 1848; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 529. 1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 755(531). 1921; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 37. 1996; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 60. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 222. 1998; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 405. 2002.
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Description:
Trees, to 7 m high. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 4-7 mm long, slender, glabrous when mature; lamina 2-10 x 2-3.5 cm, rhomboid, base attenuate or cuneate, apex acuminate, acute or obtuse, margin entire or very obscurely crenulate, recurved, glabrous, with scattered brown glands on both sides, chartaceous; nerves obscure. Flowers bisexual, 3-3.5 mm across, pinkish-white, in axillary compound umbellate cymes; peduncle 1-1.5 cm long; pedicel 6-8 m long, slender, red puberulus; bracts lanceolate; calyx lobes 5, 0.5-1 mm long, triangular-ovate, ciliate, punctate with red glands on one side; corolla lobes 5, 2.5-3 mm long, pink, rotate, ovate-lanceolate, punctate; stamens 5; filaments short; anthers apiculate, sagitate; ovary 1 mm across, superior, 1-celled, ovules few to many, globose; style simple; stigma terminal. Fruit a berry, 5-6 mm across, with persistent stylar base.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-December
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District(s):
Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen and shola 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):
Pink, 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:
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Altitude:
900-1200
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Localities:
Mlappara, Eravikulam, Chemungi
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