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Cryptocarya neilgherrensis
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Cryptocarya neilgherrensis Meisner in DC., Prodr. 15:71.1864; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1219(853). 1925; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 269. 1999.
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 10 m high; bark greyish-brown, smooth; blaze dull yellow; branchlets fulvous-tomentose and lenticellate. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 7-15 mm long, stout, pubescent; lamina 6-10.5 x 2.5-5.5 cm, elliptic-obovate, elliptic or ovate-oblong, base acute, apex acuminate, acute, margin entire, recurved, glabrous above, pubescent and glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-10 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, in short congested axillary or terminal fulvous tomentose panicles of 5-10 cm wide; pedicels to 0.5 cm; perianth pubescent, tube ultimately narrowed at the top; lobes 6 4 mm, ovate, pubescent, subequal, in 2 rows; 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; filaments hairy; anthers 2-celled; connective often produced; ovary half inferior, globose, 2 mm across, glaucous, sessile, enclosed in the tube; style short, exserted. Fruit a berry, ovoid, black.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-April
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District(s):
Idukki, Wayanad, Kozhikkode
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola forests
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Distribution:
Peninsular India
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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:
Peninsular India
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Olikkudy
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