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Barringtonia acutangula
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Family:
LECYTHIDACEAE
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Citation: Barringtonia acutangula (L.) Gaertn., Fruct. 2: 97, t.101. 1790; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 508. 1879; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 487(344). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 109. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 183. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 160. 1985; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 162. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 251. 1990; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 185. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 266. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 122. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 219. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 291. 2009.
Eugenia acutangula L., Sp. Pl. 471. 1753.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Attampu, Attupera, Aattuvanchimaram, Adambu, Attupezhu, Cheriyasamskaravadi, Neerpezhu
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Indian oak, Small indian oak
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 15 m high, bark 10-12 mm thick, surface dark brown, rough, rich in tannin; blaze yellow; branchlets densely tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered towards the tip of branchlets; stipules lateral, cauducous; petiole 6-12 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 7-18 x 2.5-7 cm, oblanceolate, obovate or elliptic-obovate, base cuneate, or attenuate, apex obtuse, round or subacute, margin finely serrate, glabrous, subcoriaceous; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, slender, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 6-8 mm across, red, in terminal pendulous racemes; bracts small, deciduous; calyx tube campanulate, adnate to the ovary; lobes 4, ovate, acute, imbricate; petals 4, ovate, obtuse, imbricate, basally connate, adnate to the staminal tube; stamens many, in several rows; filaments exserted, filiform, 1.5 cm long, pink, connate below; ovary inferior, 2 mm, 2-celled, ovules 6-8 in each cell; style to 2 cm, filiform; stigma small. Fruit a fibrous berry, 2.5-3.8 cm long, oblong-ovoid, bluntly quadrangular; seed one, ovoid.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-May
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kottayam, Alappuzha, Kasaragode, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram, Kozhikkode, Thrissur, Ernakulam
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Along riverbanks and water courses
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia to Australia
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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):
Creamy
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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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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Vazhachal, Orukomban, Canoli, Pampa valley, Sreekantapuram, Thenmalai, Choolatheruvu
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