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Beaumontia jerdoniana
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Family:
APOCYNACEAE
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Citation: Beaumontia jerdoniana Wight, Ic. tt. 1314 & 1315. 1848; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 661. 1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 772(575). 1923; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 275. 1988; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 29.1996; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 516. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Swethapushpi
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Nepal Trumpet Flower
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Description:
Woody climbers; branchlets pale brownish, terete, 3-10 mm thick, glabrous. Leaves opposite, 12-25 x 3.5-12 cm, narrowly oblong, oblong-elliptic to obovate, obtuse to rounded at base, entire, abruptly caudate at apex (cauda 5-10 mm long), thinly coriaceous, glabrous, dark brown above when dry, paler beneath; lateral nerves 8-14 pairs, faint above, prominent beneath, lax, arcuate; nervules faint above, prominent beneath, scalariform, mostly branched; petioles 1-4 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, few- flowered subumbellate cymes, often once branched towards apex, rusty-pubescent, up to 15 x 15 cm; peduncles 1-4 cm long; bracts foliaceous, up to 15 mm long. Flowers white; pedicels 2.5-3.5 cm long, densely adpressed tawny- pubescent. Calyx lobes 5, foliaceous, almost free, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 10-15 x 4-5 mm, acute, densely tawny pubescent. Corolla campanulate; tube ca 15 mm long, hairy at throat inside, lobes 5, spathulate-obovate, 6-7 x 3-3.5 cm, evanescently puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla tube; filaments intertwisted; anthers sagittate, adhering with the stigma. Ovary 1, 2-locular; style filiform, puberulous; stigma oblong-fusiform. Fruits splitting into 2 follicles at full maturity, ca 25 cm long, thick and woody.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-December
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District(s):
Wayanad, Kasaragode, Kozhikkode
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
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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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Chandanathode
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