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Cyclea barbata
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Family:
MENISPERMACEAE
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Citation: Cyclea barbata Miers, Contr. Bot. 3:237.1871; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 4. 1988; Gangop. in B. D. Sharma et al., Fl. India 1: 322. 1993; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 15. 2000; M. Mohanan in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 185. 2005.
Cyclea wallichii Diels in Engl., Pflanzenreich Menispermac. 315. 1910.
Cissampelos barbata Wall., Cat. No. 4978. 1831-32, nom. nud.
Cyclea peltata Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat. 1: 86. 1855, non. (Lam.) Hook.f. & Thoms. 1855 nec Miers, 1874.
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Description:
Slender, climbing shrubs, to 5 m long, branchlets hispid when young, glabrous when old. Leaves alternate, ovate or deltoid-ovate, truncate or rounded at base, obtuse or acuminate at apex mucronate, 6-15.5 x 4-12.5 cm, hispid to subglabrous above, tomentose beneath; petioles 3-6 cm long, hispid. Male inflorescences axillary or cauliflorous 7-10 cm long puberulous cymes; flowers 1-2 mm long, pedicelled, with turbinate puberulous greenish calyx lobes and gamopetalous obtusely lobed glabrous corolla; synandrium 1-2 mm long, exserted. Female inflorescences similar to male ones but broader; flowers sessile, in dense heads; sepals 2 obovate or rhomboid, pilose outside; petals 2, reniform, broader than sepals, glabrous; ovary ellipsoid, curved, densely pilose; stigma 3-laciniate. Drupes obovoid to globose, 4-7 x 4-5.5 mm, puberulous; endocarp with 3 rows of papilliform tubercles on both faces; seeds curved.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-May
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-1480
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Localities:
Walakkad, Vellarimala
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