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Julostylis polyandra
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Family:
MALVACEAE
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Citation: Julostylis polyandra Ravi & Anil Kumar, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 87: 260. 1990; T.K. Paul in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 342. 1993; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 80. 1994; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 152. 1996; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 98. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 84. 2005; M. Mohanan & A.V.N. Rao in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 427. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Vazhukkal
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 15 m; branches stout, terete; young branches stellately rusty tomentose. Leaves simple, simply lobed, alternate, stipulate; stipules 3 mm long, free, lateral, linear, stellate pubescent, caducous; petiole 10-80 mm long, slender, minutely stellate tomentose; lamina 4-21 x 2-18 cm, broadly ovate to rhomboid, weakly 3-angular or occasionally 3-lobed towards apices, base truncate or cuneate, apex acute, margin entire, coriaceous; 5-nerved from base, palmate, prominent, with a nectary at the base of the midrib beneath and sometimes also on the basal nerves, lateral nerves 3-4 pairs, pinnate, regular, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in terminal compact racemes or panicles; pedicels upto 1.5 cm long, minutely stellate pubescent; involucellar bracts 5, 9 x 8 mm, ovate-triangular, connate at base, glabrescent, occasionally with few scattered minute stellate hairs, accrescent; calyx divided to the middle, lobes 5, 6 x 4 mm, ovate-triangular as long as involucellar bracts, minutely stellate tomentose externally and simple hairy internally; corolla yellow with purple centre, 2 cm across; petals 5, 2 x 1 cm narrowly obovate, connate at base, minutely stellate pubescent externally; staminal column 6 mm long, antheriferous towards the middle, 5-toothed at apex, minutely glandular hairy; anthers reniform, 17-20; filaments slender, 6 mm long, sparsely pubescent; ovary superior, ovoid, 2-locular, 2 ovules per locule; style 1.5 cm long, slender, 2-branched towards apex, densely hairy; stigma peltate. Fruit a capsule, indehiscent, compressed globose, shortly beaked, densely stellate hairy with intermingled simple hairs, completely enclosed within calyx; seeds reniform, concentrically striated, brownish-black.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-March
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District(s):
Pathanamthitta, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-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):
Red
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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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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
600-900
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Localities:
Ponmudi, Kakki hills, Kallippara, Meenmutty
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