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Carissa hirsuta
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Family:
APOCYNACEAE
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Citation: Carissa hirsuta Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 128. 1821; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 805 (566). 1923.
Carissa spinarum L. var. hirsuta (Roth) Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 631. 1881.
Carissa villosa Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 690. 1832.
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Description:
Spinous shrubs, spines long and straight, up to 3.5 cm, sometimes forked; branchlets grey-tomentose. Leaves opposite, to 5 x 2.5 cm, elliptic oblong, obtuse or acute at apex, slightly cuneate at base; lateral nerves about 8 pairs, the lowest pair oblique and arched to meet the rest. Cymes shortly peduncled. Flowers white. Calyx-lobes ovate, villous. Corolla small, tube cylindrica Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube, included; anthers lanceolate. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 1-4 in each cell, rarely more; style filiform; stigma fusiform or columnar, minutely 2-fid. Berry globose, black-purple; seeds 4.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-October
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Scrub jungle and dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
India and Sri Lanka
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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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