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Erythrina fusca
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Papilionoideae)
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Citation: Erythrina fusca Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 427. 1790; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 223. 2009.
Erythrina glauca Willd., Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin, Neue Schriften 3:428.1801.
Erythrina ovalifolia Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 254. 1832; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 189. 1876.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kandal Murikku
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Purple coral tree
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Description:
Moderate-sized much branched trees with scattered pale prickles; bark pale brown, thick and fluted. Leaflets 8-15 x 4.5-8 cm, elliptic or ovate, base rounded, apex obtuse or rounded, subcoriaceous, lateral nerves 6-8 pairs; stipels c. 1 mm long, persistent. Flowers crimson, mostly 3-nate on the ferruginous hairy rachis of the racemes; bracts and bracteoles c. 2.5 x 2 mm, ovate; pedicels 8-15 mm long. Calyx 1.4-1.7 cm long, campanulate, ferruginous pubescent, often irregularly splitting. Standard 3.5-4.5 long, rounded-rhomboid, the claw c. 1.5 cm long; wings c. 2 x 1.3 cm, obliquely obovate; keels c. 3 x 1.5 cm, ovate-falcate. Ovary long-stipitate; ovules many. Pods 8-15 x 1.2-1.8 cm, linear, torulose, beaked, adpressed hairy, 5-8-seeded. Seeds 1-1.5 x 0.5-0.8 cm, oblong-ellipsoid, blackish.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-May
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District(s):
Alappuzha
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Along banks of backwaters and mangrove forests
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia, West Indies and America
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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):
Red
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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:
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:
Punnamada, Thanneermukkam
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