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Fibraurea darshanii
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Family:
MENISPERMACEAE
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Citation: Fibraurea darshanii Udayan & Ravikumar, Rheedea 17: 9. 2007.
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Description:
Woody dioecious climbers, branches with prominent leaf scars; bark smooth, shining, papery, peeling off in scales; stem up to 6 cm thick. Leaves alternate, often 2 or more in older stems, 5.5-13.5 x 2-4.5 cm, ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, acuminate at apex, truncate at base, entire, basally 3 nerved, lateral pair intramarginal, running up to the tip of lamina, distinctly looping along the margin; lateral nerves 4-7 pairs; petiole slender, slightly swollen and geniculate at base, 2-8 cm long, often drying blackish at least at swollen base. Flowers monoecious. Male inflorescence condensed umbellate racemes on old stems, 6-10 cm long; peduncles 4-8 cm long; flowers 30-60, rarely distichous; pedicels 1.5-2 mm long, puberulous; bracts 3, minute; perianth sepaloid (3+3), outer 3 minute; c. 0.5 mm long; inner 3, triangular-ovate, c. 3 mm long, glabrous, reflexed at anthesis, greenish-yellow, puberulous; petals absent; stamens usually 6, rarely 5 or 7, each c. 4 mm long; filaments broad, columnar, c. 3.5 mm long, glabrous, whitish-yellow; anthers ovate, c. 0.5 mm long, partially immersed in the column, whitish-yellow turning black. Female inflorescence compound elongated racemes on old stems, up to 12 cm long; peduncles c. 6 cm long; female flowers many, pedicel about 1 mm long, glabrous; bracts 3, minute, c. 0.5 mm long, perianth lobes 3, triangular-ovate, c. 2.5 mm long, greenish-yellow, glabrous; staminodes 6, subulate, c. 1.5 mm long; carpels 3, ellipsoid, c. 1.5 mm long; stigma sessile, 3-cleft. Infructescences up to 15 cm long. Drupes 3 together, oblong, terete, c. 2 x 1.5 cm, yellow to orange-red, on knob-like carpophore with terminal stylar scar; fruiting pedicels 1.5-2 cm long; seeds oblong, sub-ellipsoid, dorsally convex, ventrally narrow-grooved lengthwise, reniform in cross section; endocarps 1-2 cm long, hard, rigid; endosperm abundant, horny.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-April
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Thrissur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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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):
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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:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
200-600
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Localities:
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