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Filicium decipiens
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Family:
SAPINDACEAE
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Citation: Filicium decipiens (Wight & Arn.) Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 408. 1864; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 539. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 249(178). 1918; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 112. 1988; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 33. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 78. 1998; P.C. Pant in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 363. 2000; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 74. 2002; P. Singh & E. Vajr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 778. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 243. 2009.
Rhus decipiens Wight & Arn., Prodr. 172. 1834.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Irumbarakki, Neeroli, Valmuriccha, Muriccha, Sanimaram
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Fern Tree
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 25 m high, bark blackish or reddish-grey, rough; branchlets angular. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 10-23 cm long, articulate, broadly winged, glabrous, swollen at base; leaflets 10-21, opposite or subopposite, sessile; lamina 6-10.5 x 1-3 cm, narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base acute or oblique, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, wavy, subcoriaceous, glabrous, gland-dotted; lateral nerves many, parallel, close, slender, faint; intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers polygamous, 5-6 mm across, pinkish-white, in axillary panicles; calyx 5 lobed; lobes imbricate, deciduous; petals 5, orbicular, small; disc 5 lobed, tomentose; stamens 5, free, inserted within the disc; filaments subulate; anthers ovate; ovary superior, globose, sessile, ovules solitary, pendulous; style hooked; stigma simple, bilobed. Fruit a drupe, 10-12 mm across, ovoid, purple, shining, apiculate; seed one, oblong.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-December
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki, Kannur, Kollam, Thrissur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, also grown as ornamental tree
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Distribution:
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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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-1800
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Localities:
KFRI garden, Karadikkavala, Kariamchola, on way to Kannoth
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