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Ilex wightiana var. wightiana
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Family:
AQUIFOLIACEAE
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Citation: Ilex wightiana Wall. ex Wight, Ic. t. 1216. 1848, var. wightiana; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 603. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 200(143). 1915; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 35. 1996; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 36. 1998; D. Basu in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 73. 2000; M. Reema et al. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 695. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Parasal, Vellodi
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees to 15 m tall; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, elliptic, ovate, oblong or oblanceolate, acute to acuminate, mucronate-apiculate or rarely obtuse at apex, acute or rounded at base, subentire or serrulate at margin, glabrescent; lateral nerves distinct or not; petioles to 1.4 cm long. Inflorescences in umbellules; peduncles of male inflorescences 0.8-1.25 cm long; flowers 5-merous, 5-6 mm across. Calyx cupular, 1-2 x 2-2.5 mm; lobes 5 or 6, oblong-ovate, ovate or oblong, acute-apiculate, sometimes obtuse at apex, ciliate at margin, puberulous. Petals 5 or 6, connate below, white; tube ca 1 mm long; lobes oblong, oblong-obovate or ovate-elliptic, entire at margin, obtuse at apex, 2-2.5 x 1.5-2 mm. Stamens 5 or 6, shorter than petals, epipetalous; filaments ca. 1 mm long; anthers oblong, 0.8-0.9 mm long, dorsifixed; ovary rudimentary, puberulent; stigma 4-6 lobed. Female umbels lax; peduncles ca 1.2 cm long; calyx and petals as in male flowers; ovary globose, ca 2 mm, 6-loculed; ovules 1 or 2 in each locule, pendulous; style ca 0.5 mm long; stigma capitate. Drupes globose, apiculate, smooth, dark red or blue; pyrenes 5 or 6, 3-gonous.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-August
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Palakkad, Idukki, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola 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):
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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Sispara
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