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Glochidion zeylanicum var. tomentosum
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Glochidion zeylanicum var. tomentosum Trim., Syst. Cat. Fl. Pl. Ceylon 79. 1885; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 354. 2007.
Glochidion tomentosum Dalz. in Hook.'s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 38. 1850; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 309. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1306(914). 1925; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 374. 1998; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 447. 2005.
Glochidion zeylanicum (Gaertn.) A. Juss. var. tomentosum (Dalz.) Chakrab. & Gangop., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 19: 229. 1995, nom. illeg; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 292. 2002.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Nellikkapuli
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 10 m high, bark brown; blaze pink-red; all parts except often the upper surface of leaves grey, fulvous, brown, or rufous tomentose or densely hirsute. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral; petiole 2-8 mm long, stout, tomentose; lamina 4-26 x 2.5-12 cm, oblong, ovate, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sometimes suborbicular, base oblique, round, truncate or cordate, apex apiculate to acuminate or subacute, margin entire, pilose to puberulous on nerves, glabrous above and tomentose beneath; lateral nerves 4-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellow, in supra axillary or rarely axillary umbels; peduncle adnate to the stem, 8-10 mm long; male flowers: pedicel 5-10 mm long; tepals 3 + 2-3, 1.5-3 x 1-2.5 mm, stamens 5-7, connate by their connectives in a coloum; connectives produced; female flowers: pedicel 2-7 mm long; tepals 3 + 2-3, oblong, ovate to suborbicular or connate and cupular 2-4 mm, with ovate, triangular or deltoid; ovary superior, 4-6 locular; ovules 2 in each cell; styles to 3 mm long, free, subulate or oblong, connivent erect and columnar or conical with 4-6 triangular lobes. Fruit a capsule, 3-6 x 7-12 mm, depressed or subglobose, 4-6 locular, unlobed or obscurely lobed, angled, beaked, hispid; pedicels 2-7 mm long.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-May
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Thiruvananthapuram, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Deciduous and evergreen forests, also in grasslands
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Distribution:
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):
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:
Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
-1050
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Localities:
Kokkara, Vallakkadavu, Parambikulam, Anakkalvayal, Rockpoint, Mananthavady, Thannithode
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