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Atalantia simplicifolia
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Family:
RUTACEAE
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Citation: Atalantia simplicifolia Tanaka, Journ. Bot. 68: 232. 1930.
Amyris simplicifolia Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 244. 1832.
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Description:
Shrubs or small trees, up to 5 m high; branchlets slender, cylindric, glabrous. Leaves unifoliolate, leaflet 7.5-13.5 x 2.5-5.2 cm, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, shallowly narrowed at base, caudate-acuminate at apex with 10-15 mm long acumen, entire along margins, coriaceous, glabrous, notched at tip; secondary nerves ca 10 pairs with as many fainter ones in between arising at angles 50-600 with the midnerve, finely reticulate; petioles 5-10 mm long, horizontally grooved above, articulate with base of blade, glabrous. Inflorescence axillary racemes, up to 2.5 cm long, few-flowered, glabrous; pedicels slender, ca 7 mm long, glabrous. Flowers small. Calyx small with 4 minute, acute sepals. Petals 4, obovate-oblong. Stamens 8, free; anthers ovoid. Ovary seated on an annular disk, 2-locular; each locule with 2-collateral ovules; stigma subcapitate. Berry globose, glandular, 2-locular, young (unripe) fruits ca 10 x 8 mm.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen 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:
Western Ghats
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