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Gomphandra coriacea
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Family:
ICACINACEAE
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Citation: Gomphandra coriacea Wight, Illustr. 1: 103. 1840; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 195(140). 1915; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 112. 1984; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 52. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 102. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 114. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 112. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 102. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 63. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 139. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 64. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 65. 1999; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 41. 2000; R. Mathur in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 22. 2000; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 61. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 154. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 123. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 215. 2009.
Gomphandra polymorpha Wight, Illustr. 1: 103. 1840 p.p. & Ic. tt. 953,954. 1843; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 586. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 195(139). 1915.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chottamaram, Chakkimaram, Kambilichedi
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Description:
Trees, to 7 m high, bark dark grey, smooth; blaze yellow; branchlets green. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate, 3-12 x 1.8-5 cm, elliptic, obovate or elliptic-obovate, apex obtuse, obtusely acute, acute or acuminate, base acute, margin entire, coriaceous; petiole 5-15 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lateral nerves 3-7 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, intercostae obscure. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, greenish-white, in leaf opposed cymes or rarely in axillary cymes. Calyx minute, cup-shaped; lobes 4-5. Corolla 4 mm long; lobes 4-5, acute, connate into a tube, lobes inflexed at apex; male flowers. Stamens 4-5, exserted, free; filaments thick, fleshy often connate, usually with a tuft of club-shaped hairs on the back at the apex; anthers pendulous from the interior apex of the filaments, dehiscing longitudinally; disc thick, annular or 0; pistillode pubescent; female flowers. Ovary superior, oblong, 1-celled, ovules 2; style conic; stigma small or discoid. Fruit a drupe, 15 x 8 mm, pale yellow, oblong-terete, crowned with the remains of persistent stigmas; endocarp wrinkled; seed pendulous, longitudinally surrounded by raphe.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-March
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District(s):
Wayanad, Palakkad, Kottayam, Kozhikkode, Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests and shola forests
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Distribution:
South 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):
Green, 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:
900-1880
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Localities:
Sholayar, Kallar, Rosemala, Olikkudy, Inchippara, Melmanalar, Karimala, Pooppara, Orukomban, Munnar, Vattavada, Silent Valley R. F., Boneccord, Sispara, Ranni, Konni, Chemungi, Karuvarakundu, Vellarimala, Bonaccord, Chemungi, Athirumala, Agasthymala peak
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