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Heterophragma quadriloculare
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Family:
BIGNONIACEAE
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Citation: Heterophragma quadriloculare K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Naturl. Pflanzenfam. 4(3b): 243. 1895; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 599. 2009.
Heterophragma roxburghii DC., Prodr. 9: 210. 1845; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 381. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 997(701). 1924; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 223. 2002.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Waras
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Description:
Medium sized trees; to 15 m high; bark 1.3 cm thick, brown or grey, exfoliating in small angular scales; bole rough. Leaves compound, imparipinnate, opposite, clustered at apex, estipulate; rachis 14-23 cm, slender, pulvinate, puberulent; leaflets 7-11, opposite or subopposite; petiolule 3-15 mm, slender, puberulent; lamina 4-5 x 1.8-2.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong; base acute or oblique; apex obtuse or acute; margin entire or crenate, puberulent, coriaceous; lateral nerves, 4-6 pairs, pinnate, prominent, slender, puberulent; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, rose coloured, in terminal woolly tomentose panicle; pedicels to 5 mm, stout; calyx to 2 cm, tubular, irregularly 5 lobed, densely tomentose; corolla to 3.5 cm, floccose, lobes 5, subequal, rounded, crisped; stamens 4, didydynamous, included, anthers divaricate disc cushion shaped; ovary sessile, ovate; ovule many; style to 3 cm; stigma 2 lobed. Fruit a capsule, 25-28 x 5-6.5 cm, oblong, 2 valved, compressed, dissepiments spongy; seeds 2 x 6 cm, membranous, winged at one end.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-February
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District(s):
Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Peninsular India
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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):
Rose
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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:
Peninsular India
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Kuchimudi
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