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Dimorphocalyx glabellus var. glabellus
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Dimorphocalyx glabellus Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 278. 1861, var. glabellus; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 403. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1336(935). 1925; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 363. 1984; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 205. 2007.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kalpottan, Navamaram
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Small much branched trees; branchlets nearly white. Leaves simple, alternate, 12 x 5 cm, elliptic or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, reddish brown when dry and rather thin; petiole 0.5-1 cm long. Male flowers shortly pedicelled; female long pedicelled; pedicels with few small obtuse bracts. Petals of the male longer than the sepals, of the female shorter. Stamens about 10. Ovary strigose. Capsule slightly hispid-villous, shortly lobed; seeds oblong, mottled. Fruiting calyx obovate, obtuse, with a glandular pit on back near the tip.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Kollam, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen 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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