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Bhesa indica
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Family:
CELASTRACEAE
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Citation: Bhesa indica (Bedd.) Ding Hou, Blumea Suppl. 4: 152. 1958; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 115. 1984; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 105. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 65. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 66. 1998; K. Ramam. in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 77. 2000; K. Ramam. & P. Venu in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 697. 2005.
Trochisandra indica Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 120. 1872.
Kurrimia bipartita Lawson in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 622. 1875.
Kurrimia indica (Bedd.) Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 209(149). 1918.
Kurrimia paniculata sensu Lawson in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 622. 1875 p.p. non Wall. ex Arn. 1836.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Penali
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 30 m high; bark 5-6 mm thick, grey mottled with greenish-white; brittle; blaze creamy brown, surface slimy. Leaves simple, alternate, stipule large, deciduos; petiole 16-60 mm, stout, swollen at base and tip, glabrous; lamina 7-22 x 1.6-12 cm, broadly elliptic-ovate, oblong, ovate to lanceolate, base obtuse or subtruncate, apex acute, mucronate, margin entire glabrous, coriaceous, lateral nerves 15-20 pairs, parallel, ascending, prominent, regular, arched towards the margin; intercostae scalariform. Flowers bisexual, in terminal panicles, 6-8 mm across, pale yellow; calyx deeply 5-fid, lobes imbricate; petals 5, deflexed; disc fleshy, 5-lobed; stamens 5, inserted below the margin of disc, filaments subulate; ovary ovoid, seated on the disc, 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; styles two, free, stigma small, capitate. Fruit a capsule, 3-3.7 cm long, two lobed, two valved, lobes flat, divergent, reddish-brown; seeds 1-3, fleshy with aril.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-April
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District(s):
Kollam, Idukki, Thrissur, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia
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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):
Yellow
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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:
1000-2000
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Localities:
Sholayar, Alvarakurichi, Vellimala, Nelluyampathy forests
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