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Gyrinops walla
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Family:
THYMELEACEAE
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Citation: Gyrinops walla Gaertn., Fruct. 2: 276, t. 140. f.6.1791; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5:199.1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1245(871). 1925; Joseph et al., Indian J. Bot. 5: 143. 1982; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 398. 1994; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 576. 2002.
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Description:
Trees, to 15 m high, bole straight; bark brownish-grey, thin, smooth, fibrous; branchlets slender, wiry, rather shining, appressed white hairy when young, glabrescent and greyish when mature. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, silky pubescent; petiole 1-6 mm long, slender, grooved above, pubescent when young; lamina 3-10× 1.5-4 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, base acute or attenuate, apex obtusely acuminate, margin entire, densely appresed pubescent when young, glabrous when mature, shining, chartaceous; lateral nerves many, parallel, close. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-white, in 3-5 flowered umbel like terminal heads; bracts lanceolate, membranous, cauducous; pedicels 3-4 mm long, thinly pilose; perianth tube 4-10 mm long, slender, thinly appressed pilose; lobes 5, oblong, spreading, increasingly pilose upwards on dorsal surface, tomentose within; stamens 5, inserted at the throat and alternating with thick lanate, petalloid appendages; ovary stipitate, densely hairy, 2-celled, ovule one in each cell; style 1.5 cm long; stigma ovoid. Fruit a 2-valved capsule, reddish-brown, compressed, acute; seed solitary, planoconvex, covered with dense yellow hairs.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-November
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Peninsular 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):
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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Boneccord, Bonaccord, Attayar
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