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Cinnamomum nicolsonianum
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Cinnamomum nicolsonianum Manilal & Shylaja, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 28: 111. 1986.
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Description:
Trees, 15 m high. Leaves simple, opposite, 9-20 x 4-6 cm, elliptic, apex obtuse, base cuneate, margin entire, sparsely hairy above, moderately hairy beneath, chartaceous, 3-ribbed from base, reaching the tip, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 15-30, in axillary panicles, 10 cm long; pedicels short. Perianth tube short, tepals 6, 2-3 mm long, tomentose. Stamens 9 perfect, those of first and second rows opposite the perianth lobes, introrse and eglandular, those of third row opposite the first row, lateral, bearing 2 large glands at the base; staminodes 3, of the forth row opposite the second row, cordate and stipitate. Ovary half inferior, sessile. Fruit a berry, up to 8 x 10 mm, subtended by shallow fleshy deep cup, the base conical; the rim with the persistent, thickened tepals, basal part rounded, pilose.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-March
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Plains and foot hills
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Distribution:
Southern 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):
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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:
Southern Western Ghats
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