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Diospyros melanoxylon var. melanoxylon
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Family:
EBENACEAE
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Citation: Diospyros melanoxylon Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 46. 1795, var. melanoxylon; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 564. 1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 772(543). 1923; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 181. 1999; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Diospyros 149. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 498. 2009.
Diospyros dubia Wall. ex A. DC. in DC., Prodr. 8: 223. 1844.
Diospyros exsculpta Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 66. 1870, non Buch.-Ham. 1827.
Diospyros wightiana Wall. ex A. DC. in DC., Prodr. 8: 223. 1844.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Beediyilamaram, Kari, Thumbimaram
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Coromandel ebony, Malabar ebony, Persimmon ebony
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Description:
Dioecious trees, to 20 m high, bark 10 mm, brown, deeply fissured; ridges black, fissures lighter; young parts rusty-tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate or subopposite, estipulate; petiole 4-10 mm long, slender, tomentose; lamina 3.5-15 x 3-6.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or ovate, base acute or obtuse, apex obtuse, round or subacute, often emarginate, margin entire, glabrescent above, thinly pubescent below, coriaceous, lateral nerves 5-9 pairs, pinnate, prominent intercostae subscalariform, slender, faint. Flowers unisexual, white; male flowers: in short densely tawny-tomentose drooping axillary cymes, sometimes at the base of branchlets; peduncle 7 mm, tomentose; calyx yellowish-green, campanulate; lobes 5, ovate, tomentose, acute; corolla tubular, thin-fleshy; tube 1 cm, appressed hairy without; lobes 5, ovate, 3 mm, acute, reflexed; stamens 10-16, in pairs; anthers 2 mm, oblong, acute or apiculate; pistillode reduced, pubescent; female flowers: solitary, axillary; pedicel 4 mm long, stout, tomentose; bracteoles present; calyx green to brown, deeply 5-lobed; lobes ovate, 7 mm, margin folded-crinkled, acute; corolla tubular, thin-fleshy, tube 1 cm, appressed hairy without; lobes 5, ovate, 3 mm, acute, reflexed; staminodes 8-10, 4 mm, lanceolate; ovary superior, 4 mm across, globose, tomentose, 6-celled, ovules 1-in each cell; style 3 mm long, bifid. Fruit a berry, globose, apiculate, rusty-tomentose when young, glabrous later; calyx slightly enlarged, fulvous-tomentose, margin reflexed; seeds 1-4.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-July
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District(s):
Idukki, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous 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):
Yellow, Green
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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:
Kombakkayam
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