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Eugenia codyensis
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Eugenia codyensis Munro ex Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. 2: 13 1841.
Eugenia cotinifolia ssp. codyensis (Munro ex Wight) P.S.Ashton, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceyl. 2: 412. 1981.
Syzygium codyensis (Munro ex Wight) Chandrash., Biol. Membr. Abstr. 2: 57. 1977.
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Description:
Much branched small trees, bark rough silvery-grey; twigs terete, pale grey, rapidly becoming stout. Leaves simple, opposite, 3-6 x 2-5 cm, broadly elliptic to suborbicular, thickly coriaceous, concave, drying chocolate-brown beneath, apex retuse, obtuse, or subacute, base broadly cuneate, margin prominently revolute; nerves ca 8 pairs, very slender, ascending, hardly elevated on either surface; intramarginal nerve ca 1 mm within margin, ± obscure; tertiary nerves obscure; midrib stoutly prominent beneath; petiole 5-10 mm long, stout. Flowers white to pale yellow, solitary, axillary; pedicels 3.5 cm long, very slender. Calyx 8 mm diam., 7 mm long, shallowly cup-shaped, puberulent, with 4, 7 mm long and broad, prominent segments forming a 20 mm diam. ring. Petals 15 x 10 mm, elliptic-spathulate, obtuse, very large. Stamens ca 10 mm long. Fruit 2.5 cm diam., globose, ripening green flushed with crimson, with prominent ca 12 mm terminal rim bearing the persistent calyx segments.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-June
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District(s):
Wayanad, Kannur
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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):
White
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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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