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Aristolochia ringens
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Family:
ARISTOLOCHIACEAE
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Citation: Aristolochia ringens Vahl, Symb. Bot. 3: 99. 1794.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Garudapoovu, Mayilpoovu
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Aristolochia, Gaping Dutchman's Pipe, Pipe vine
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Description:
Climbing glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate, 6-12 cm across, orbicular-cordate, deeply sinuate at base, obtuse at apex, pale green above, glaucous beneath; basally5-7 nerved radiate; petiole to 7 cm long; stipules leaflike, 2-lobed, reniform. Flower stalk is slender, four times as long as the leaf stalk. Flowers, 12-20 cm long, greenish, marked with dark purple. Corolla with a obovoid basal portion, ca. 5 cm long, woolly inside and the tube ascends obliquely from the sack, dividing into two very long lips. Capsule 3-5 x 3-4 cm, globose-pyriform, 6-ridged, dehiscing from the base, after dehiscence parachute-like; seeds numerous, broadly deltoid, flat, winged.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-June
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant, sometimes runs wild
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Distribution:
Native of South and Central America, introduced elsewhere
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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):
Brown, Purple
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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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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