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Cryptocarya anamalayana
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Cryptocarya anamalayana Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1925: 126. 1925 & Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1218(853). 1925; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 393. 1994; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 267. 1997.
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 8 m high; bark greyish-brown, smooth; young shoots fulvous-tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 5-10 mm long, stout, tomentose; lamina 8.5-20 x 3.5-9 cm, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-obovate, base obtuse, acute or cuneate, apex obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous except nerves, shiny above, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, pinnate, intercostae scalariform, prominent; nerves and nervules fulvous tomentose beneath; reticulation areolate. Flowers bisexual, in short axillary fulvous-tomentose cymose panicles upto 3 cm long; pedicels scarcely any; bracts and bracteoles oblong, conspicuous, apparently persistent; perianth 2-5 mm long, tube ultimately narrowed at the top; lobes 6, in 2 rows, subequal, tomentose; stamens 9 perfect, in 3 rows, those of the 2 outer series with eglandular, filaments and introrse anthers, those of the third series with 2 glandular filaments and extrorse anthers; those of the fourth series replaced by 3 stipitate staminodes; anthers 2-celled; connective often produced; ovary sessile, half inferior, enclosed in the tube; style short exserted. Fruit a drupe, enclosed in accrescent perianth-tube; pericarp more or less free from the perianth tube.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-April
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District(s):
Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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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):
Green, Yellow
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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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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Kallar, Alvarakurichi, Merchiston
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