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Atuna travancorica
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Family:
CHRYSOBALANACEAE
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Citation: Atuna travancorica (Bedd.) Kosterm., Reinwardtia 7: 423. 1969; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 169. 1984; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 178. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 172. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 114. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 114. 2002 Sasidh. & Sujanpal, Rheedea 21: 82. 2011.
Parinarium travancoricum Bedd., Ic. t. 189. 1868-1874; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 311. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 437(310). 1919.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kallankaimaram
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees to 25 m high, bark greyish-brown mottled with white, smooth, thin; blaze dull red; branchlets pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules free, lateral, subulate; petiole 2-6 mm, stout, grooved above, silky tomentose when young and glabrous at maturity; lamina 4-16.5 x 1.7-4.8 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, base acute, apex acuminate or acute, margin entire, glabrous and glossy above except silky pubescent midrib, coriaceous; lateral nerves 11-17 pairs, pinnate, prominent, secondary laterals prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 1.5 cm across, pale lavender, usually in axillary silky-villous, slender drooping racemes; bracts ovate-lanceolate, villous; calyx tube funnel-shaped, lobes ovate-cuspidate, villous outside; petals 5, 7 mm long, inserted on the mouth of calyx tube, deciduous; stamens numerous, purple; filaments connate at base; anthers small; ovary superior, adnate to the side of the calyx tube, 2-celled, ovules 2, erect; style filiform, basal; stigma truncate. Fruit a drupe 2-3.5 x 2-3 cm, suborbicular, compressed brown, smooth.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-May
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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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, Lavender
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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:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Poringal, Kallar, Orukomban, Kulathupuzha, Meenmutty, Ponmudi
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