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Diospyros hirsuta
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Family:
EBENACEAE
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Citation: Diospyros hirsuta L.f., Suppl. Pl. 440. 1781; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 565. 1882; N.C. Nair & Mohanan, Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 3: 623. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 243. 1984; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 233. 1989; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 298. 2005; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Diospyros 115. 2005.
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Description:
Dioecious trees, to 6 m high, bark 3 mm thick, black, finely fissured; branches horizontal; young parts subadpressed densely pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 8-11 mm long, slender, grooved above, densely pubescent; lamina 7-17 x 3.5-7 cm, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic or oblong, base round, truncate or acute, apex acuminate, caudate-acuminate or acute, margin entire, coriaceous, adpressed pubescent especially beneath when young and glabrous above and adpressed pilose beneath when mature; lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, secondary laterals present, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellow; male flowers: in axillary, dense, sessile cymes; bracteoles small, pilose; calyx 2.5 mm long, pubescent; lobes 4-5, 1 mm long, acute; corolla 5 m long, tubular, yellow, throat narrow; lobes 4-5, overlapping in bud, acute; stamens 5, epipetalous, alternate with corolla lobes, glabrous, apiculate, filaments short; pistillode rudimentary; female flowers: 1-3, in sessile axillary clusters; bracteolate; calyx 7-9 mm long; lobes 4-5, silky brown, 3-4 mm long, triangular, reflexed; corolla upto 9 mm long, yellow; lobes 5, acute; staminodes 5, apiculate; filaments glabrous; ovary superior, globose, apiculate, densely pubescent, 8-10-celled, ovule 1-in each cell; styles 2, 2 mm long. Fruit a berry 3 x 2.5 cm, ellipsoid-ovoid to subglobose, densely, coppery-rusty haired, seated on enlarged reflexed calyx; seeds 1-8, brownish-black, endosperm ruminate.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-June
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District(s):
Kottayam, Kollam, Pathanamthitta
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Along banks of rivers
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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):
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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Chathanathara, Thannithode, Thekkuthode
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