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Grewia palodensis
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Family:
TILIACEAE
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Citation: Grewia palodensis Santhosh, Khan, Binu & Almeida, Rheedea 11: 41. 2001.
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Description:
Lianas; branchlets brown, stellate-tomentose. Leaves alternate, 8-12 x 4-6 cm, broadly elliptic or oblong, rounded at base, abruptly acuminate at apex, crenate-serrate along margin, thin-coriaceous, stellately pubescent, sparsely so above and along the nerves beneath; basally 3-nerved; petiole 0.7-1 cm long, stellate-pubescent; stipules 0.5-0.6 cm long, linear, caducous. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, many-flowered umbellate cymes; peduncles 1-3 together, 3-4.5 cm long, stellate-pubescent; bracts 0.5-0.6 cm long, linear, channeled, puberulent; pedicels 0.8-1.2 cm long in flower, to 2 cm long in fruits. Flowers 0.8 -1 cm across. Sepals 5, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-1.8 x 0.3 cm, light grayish, reflexed and curled, longitudinally ribbed, stellately-tomentose without, and pubescent at the base within. Petals 5, linear-oblong, narrow, 0.5-0.6 cm long, obtuse-apiculate at apex, base densely appressed pilose, gland to 0.2 cm. Andro-gynophore distinctly 4- grooved, to 2.5 mm, stellate-hairy discoid glands at base. Stamens 5-10 mm long; filaments glabrous; anthers 2-celled. Ovary globose, villous, to 1 mm long, 4-locular with 1 ovule in each locule; style 0.6-0.7 cm long, puberulent 1/3 from the base; stigma shallowly 4-5 grooved. Drupe deeply 2-partite, lobes emarginate, 1.5-2 cm wide, black at maturity, sparsely stellate-hairy; pyrenes 2-per lobe, glabrous.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
May-October
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests and sacred groves
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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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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