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Drypetes gardneri
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Drypetes gardneri (Thw.) Pax & Hoffmann in Engl., Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Phyllanthoid.-Phyllanth. 270. 1922; Chakrab. et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 21: 264. 1997; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 330. 2007.
Hemicyclia gardneri Thw. in Hook.'s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 7: 21. 1855; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 338. 1887.
Hemicyclia travancorica Bourd., For. Trees Travancore 329. 1908; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1300(910). 1925.
Drypetes travancorica (Bourd.) Sant. & Jain, Indian For. 92: 643. 1966; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 364. 1984.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Vella-pillai
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Dioecious evergreen trees, to 18 m high; branchlets terete, brownish, yellow-tomentllous to thinly puberulous, glabrous in age. Leaves simple, alternate, stipule lateral, small, cauducous; petiole 2-6 mm long, stout, tomentellous to glabrous; lamina 2.5-9 x 1-3 cm, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, base oblique, apex subacute, acuminate or sometimes emarginate, margin shallowly crenulate-denticellate or serrulate or subentire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-12 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers unisexual, pale yellow, in axillary fascicles; male flowers: pedicels 3-6 mm long, puberulous; tepals 4-[5], 2.5-5 x 1.5-4 mm, obovate, suborbicular or triangular-oblong, tomentose, ciliate, imbricate; stamens (8-) 12-25, 2-4 mm long; filaments free; anthers ca. 1 mm long, oblong, basifixed; disc disciform, curved at margin, puberulous; females flowers: pedicels 5-8 mm long, puberulous; tepals 4, 3-5 x 2-4.5 mm, obovate to suborbicular, puberulous, ciliate; disc annular, puberulous; ovary superior, ca. 2 x 1.5 mm, obovoid, 1-locular, appendiculate, glabrous, ovules 2; style ca. 0.5 mm long, terminal; stigma ca. 0.5 mm broad, flabelliform or reniform. Fruit a drupe ca.10 x 7 mm, bright red, obovoid, somewhat flattened, thin-walled, smooth, glabrous; pedicels ca.10 mm long.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-June
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District(s):
Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
South 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:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Parur
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