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Cordia monoica
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Family:
BORAGINACEAE
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Citation: Cordia monoica Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 58. 1796; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 137. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 888(624). 1923; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 204. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 202. 2002.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Mookalapazham, Mookattakkai, Pasakaimaram, Virimaram
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 10 m high; branchlets lenticellate, tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 5-20 mm, slender, tomentose when young, glabrous at maturity; lamina 4-10 x 1.5-7 cm, ovate, elliptic, elliptic-ovate, base round, truncate or acute, apex acute or obtuse; upper surface scabrous with prominent whitish points, villous or tomentose beneath, coriaceous; 3-5 nerves from base, palmate, lateral nerves 4-5 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers polygamous, white, subsessile, in small dense tomentose paniculate cymes; calyx tube 8 mm, obconic, densely tomentose outside, glabrous inside, unevenly 3-4 lobed, lobes 5 mm, triangular, accrescent; corolla funnel shaped, lobes[ 4]-5, longer than the tube, oblong, stamens 4-[5]; filaments attached to the mouth of corolla tube, 3 mm, glabrous; anthers 1.5 mm; ovary superior, 4-celled, hairy, ovule one in each cell; stigma clavate. Fruit a drupe, 2.5 x 1.5 cm, yellow, ovoid with a mucronate tip, fulvous-pubescent; stone 4-celled; seed one.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-April
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Peninsular 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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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Alampetty, Kalladuthupurai, Chinnar, Kuchimudi, Pandaravarai
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