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Duranta erecta
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Family:
VERBENACEAE
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Citation: Duranta erecta L., Sp. Pl. 637. 1753; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 360. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 613. 1990; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 244. 1997; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 355. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 533. 1997; Rajendran & Daniel, Indian Verbenaceae 149. 2002; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 562. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 646. 2009.
Duranta repens L., Sp. Pl. 637. 1753; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 228. 1982; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 294. 1985; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 363. 1994.
Duranta plumieri Jacq., Select. Strip. Arn. 186. 1763; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 560. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1106(774). 1924.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Duranta
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Duranta, Golden Dewdrop, Honey drops, Pigeon Berry
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Description:
Shrubs; branches often spiny, terete. Leaves 2.5 - 5.5 x 2-4 cm, elliptic-ovate or obovate, base cuneate, margins entire or coarsely serrate above the middle, apex acute, glabrous; petiole to 1 cm long. Flowers in simple or panicled racemes, terminal and axillary; pedicel 2-5 mm long. Calyx tubular, fleshy, 3-4 mm long, angled, persistent. Corolla blue or violet, with or without two purplish stripes on the tube; tube 4-6 mm long, densely puberulent outside above the calyx, limb 7-9 mm across, densely puberulent on both surface, especially towards the throat within. Stamens 4, didynamous. Ovary globular, 8-locular, 8-ovuled. Drupes yellow or orangeish - yellow, 6-10 mm across, globose, completely enclosed by the fruiting-calyx.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-March
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as hedge plant, also getting naturalised
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Distribution:
Originally from America; now widespread throughout the world
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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):
Blue, Violet, White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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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:
Bandukha, Chengannur, Nilambur
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