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Ilex wightiana var. peninsularis
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Family:
AQUIFOLIACEAE
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Citation: Ilex wightiana Wall. ex Wight var. peninsularis Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 603. 1875; D. Basu in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 73. 2000.
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Description:
Trees, 15-20 m high, bark 1.3 cm thick, smooth, greyish-white; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 7-20 mm, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 3-10 x 1.5-4 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate, base cuneate, subacute or narrowed; apex acuminate, mucronate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, obscure, regular; intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers unisexual, white, 5-merous in peduncled simple panicled puberulous umbellules; calyx lobes orbicular; petals 5, oblong, connate below; stamens shorter than the petals adhering to the base of corolla, staminodes hypogynous, united to corolla; ovary globose, to 2 mm, ca. 6-celled; ovules 1-2 in each cell, pendulous; style 0.5 mm; stigma capitate, pistillode rudimentary; disc absent. Fruit a drupe, globose, 7 mm across, red, smooth, apiculate; pyrenes 5-6, trigonus style very short, stigma subsessile.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-September
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola 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):
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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