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Cadaba fruticosa
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Family:
CAPPARACEAE
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Citation: Cadaba fruticosa (L.) Druce, Bot. Exch. Club. Soc. Brit. Isles 3: 415. 1914; Sundararagh. in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 250. 1993; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 17
Cleome fruticosa L., Sp. Pl. 671. 1753.
Cadaba indica Lam., Encycl. 1: 544. 1785; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 172. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 43(31). 1915.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kattakatti, Vizhoothi
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Indian cadaba
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Description:
Rigid wiry shrubs. Leaves simple, 1.5-4 x 1-2 cm, oblong, slightly pubescent; petioles up to 0.5 cm. Racemes few flowered, greenish-white; sepals 2 + 2, 1 x 05. cm, obovate; petals 4, 1.5 cm long, clawed, to 0.4 mm, disc prominent, infundibuliformis, lateral to the gynandrophore, long hairy; stamens 4, exserted; ovary one celled, many ovuled, stigma sessile, clavate, hairy. Berry 4 x 0.5 cm, globose; seeds globose.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Paleotropics
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Chinnar
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