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Croton gibsonianus
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Croton gibsonianus Nimmo in J. Graham, Cat. Pl. Bombay 251. 1839; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 392. 1887; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 202. 2007.
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Description:
Tall nearly glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate, 7-17 x 1.5-3.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, minutely serrate, glabrous or with a few stellate hairs, base rounded, usually with 2 stipitate glands; main nerves 6-8 pairs, slender, with reticulate venation between; petioles 1-2.5 cm long, often with a few stellate hairs at the apex and at the base. Flowers in 12-25 cm long slender racemes, the males often fascicled and the females usually solitary near the base of the racemes; bracteoles minute, linear. Male flowers: pedicels 6-8 mm long, filiform. Calyx 3 mm long, divided nearly to the base; segments ovate, acute, membranous; petals 2.5 mm long, oblong, ciliate; stamens 10, on a hairy receptacle; disk of 5 large glands. Female flowers: pedicels 3 mm long, stout, stellately hairy; calyx stellately hairy, especially at the base, lobes ovate, acute; petals 0; disk saucer-shaped; ovary globose, densely stellately hairy; styles 3, 4 mm long, each subdivided almost to the base into 2 linear branches. Capsules globose, 12 mm in diam., 3-lobed, stellately hairy; seeds broadly ellipsoid, smooth, shining, brown, mottled.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Moist deciduous and evergreen forests
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Distribution:
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:
Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-500
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