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Heterostemma beddomei
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Family:
ASCLEPIADACEAE
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Citation: Heterostemma beddomei (Hook. f.) Swarup. & Mangaly, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 101:254.1989.
Oianthus beddomei Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 49. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 847(595). 1923; Henry, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 75:692.1979.
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Description:
Twining undershrubs; branches pubescent. Leaves opposite, up to 12 x 6.5 cm, broadly ovate, acuminate, subcordate, reticulately nerved; petioles pubescent, 2-3 inch. Flowers curious cushion-like, much depressed, in axillary bracteolate cymes. Sepals small, obtuse or acute, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla discoid, mouth contracted; lobes 5, very short, broad, valvate. Staminal-column arising from the base of the corolla, minute, short, depressed; anthers with short inflexed appendages; pollen-masses very minute, one in each cell, semi-ovate, compressed, inner margin pellucid, sessile, waxy, ascending. Stigma broadly conic, not exceeding the anthers.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-September
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District(s):
Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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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):
Pink
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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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