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Homalium travancoricum
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Family:
FLACOURTIACEAE
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Citation: Homalium travancoricum Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 211.1872; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2:598.1879; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 522(369). 1919; R.L. Mitra in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 415. 1993; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 26. 1997; N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 274. 2005.
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Description:
Trees, to 15 m high, bark 3-4 mm thick, pale brown, smooth; blaze red; branchlets often inflated due to the inhabitation of ants. Leaves simple, alternate; petiole 8-16 mm, slender, glabrous; lamina 5-10 x 2.5-6, ovate, elliptic-oblong or obovate, base acute or obtuse, apex bluntly acute or acuminate, margin crenate or serrate, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, small, greenish-white, in axillary spicate racemes; calyx tube turbinate, 4 mm long, adnate to the base of the ovary; lobes 5-7, margin ciliate; petals 5-7, white, 4 mm long, inserted in the throat of the calyx; stamens in 3-4 fascicles opposite to each petal and alternating with glandular staminodes; ovary half-inferior, pubescent, 1-celled; styles 4, filiform; stigmas capitellate. Fruit a capsule; seeds small.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-November
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District(s):
Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Vulnerable (VU)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Kallar
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