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Casuarina equisetifolia
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Family:
CASUARINACEAE
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Citation:
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Malayalam Name(s):
Aru, Chavukku, Chavakkamaram, Choola, Kattadi, Sampirani
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Australian pine, Beefwood tree, Beach she-oak, Casuarina tree, Coast she-oak, Horsetail tree, Mile tree, South Sea ironweed
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Description:
Dioecious trees, to 30 m high, bark brown, rough, peeling off in vertical strips branchlets to 15 cm, arising from the axils of small, recurved scales, ribbed. Leaves scaly, ca. 7 at a node, alternating with the ribs of the upper node, 0.5-1 mm long, acute. Flowers in spikes; male flowers: in terminal spikes, pendulous, brown, of 3-6 x 0.3 cm; tepals 2, 1 mm, lanceolate, scarious, thinly ciliate, acute; stamen 1, inflexed in bud; filaments 1-2 mm; anther oblong, 1 mm; female flowers: in axillary spikes of 0.4-0.8 x 0.3-0.4 cm, solitary or in pairs, condensed into an ovoid` cone', shortly stalked; bracts and bracteoles 1.5-2 mm, persistent, woody; tepals absent; ovary superior, 1 mm, ovoid; style 0.5-0.8 cm; style filiform, persistent, reddish-purple, 2-fid. Fruit a carpophore, 1.5-3 x 1-2 cm, ovoid or oblong-cylindric; nutlets compressed; seeds winged.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Malay Islands, Australia, Pacific
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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):
Brown
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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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:
Peechi, Tellicherry, Kumbla, Manjeswar, Malampuzha, Mangalam Dam area, Thottappally, Elderslide Estate
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