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Eurya japonica
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Family:
THEACEAE
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Citation: Eurya japonica Thunb., Fl. Jap. 191. t. 25. 1784; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 284. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 79(57). 1915; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 73. 1990; A.S. Chauhan & T.K. Paul in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 184. 1993.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kooramar
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Description:
Trees. Leaves 4-6 x 1.5-3 cm, obovate to elliptic, acute to shortly acuminate at apex, round to broadly attenuate at base, finely crenate-serrate on margins, black on drying; nerves many, close and parallel. Flowers dioecious, solitary to few flowered axillary and lateral clusters. Peduncles 0.1-0.2 cm long. Sepals 5, 0.05-0.1 cm long, ovate, slightly unequal. Petals 5, white, 0.05-0.1 cm long, orbicular. Stamens 12-15. Ovary minute, 2-3 celled; ovules many in each cell; styles as many as ovary cells. Berry subglobose, 0.1-0.2 cm diam.; stylar parts persistent. Seeds minute, tuberculate.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-December
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Margins of grasslands and shola forests
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Distribution:
South India and East Asia
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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, 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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