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Falconeria insignis
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Falconeria insignis Royle, Bot. Himal. Mts. 354. t.98. f.2. 1839; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 292. 2007; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 738. 2009.
Sapium insigne (Royle) Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. Pl. 3: 335. 1880; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 471. 1888; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1346(941). 1925; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 270. 1982; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 346. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 254. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 738. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 437. 1990; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 413. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 380. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 298. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 620. 2002.
Falconeria malabarica Wight, Ic. t. 1866. 1852.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kalmaram, Kannampotti
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Tiger's Milk Spruce
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Description:
Deciduous monoecious trees, to 15 m high; exudation milky; branchlets stout, terete. Leaves simple, alternate, petiole 10-50 mm, slender glabrous, with 2 conspicuous glands at the apex; lamina 7-20 x 2.5-7 cm, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-ovate or obovate, base acute, apex acuminate, margin crenate, membranous, glabrous; lateral nerves 10-18 pairs, pinnate, prominent beneath, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, reddish, in terminal spikes, male flowers above, female ones below or in separate spikes; bracts 2, orbicular; male flowers: many in each bracts; bracteoles linear; tepals 2, orbicular, concave, stamens 2, free, exserted; female flowers: solitary in each bract; bracteoles concave imbricate, basally connate, mucronate; tepals 2, ovate, acuminate; ovary superior, ovoid, glabrous, 3-locular, ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous; styles 2-3; stigmas 3, subsessile, recurved. Fruit a capsule, loculicidal, fleshy, subglobose; seeds 3, globose, smooth.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-February
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kasaragode, Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram, Malappuram, Kozhikkode, Thrissur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia
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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):
Green, 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:
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Altitude:
800-1000
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Localities:
Ponmudi, Arjunankotta, Karimala, Damsite, Taliparamba, Ayyappankovil, Peradala, Athirumala
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