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Kydia calycina
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Family:
MALVACEAE
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Citation: Kydia calycina Roxb., Pl. Corom. 3: 11. t. 215. 1811; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 348. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 93(67). 1915; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 62. 1988; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 27. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 81. 1990; T.K. Paul in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 344. 1993; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 159. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 86. 1997; M. Mohanan & A.V.N. Rao in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 429. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 151. 2009.
Kydia fraterna Roxb., Pl. Corom. 3: 12. t.216. 1811.
Kydia roxburghiana Wight, Ic. t. 881. 1844-45.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Vellachadachi, Vellukku, Vellukkuventa
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Roxburgh's Kydia, Pula
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Description:
Trees, to 15 m high, bark 5-6 mm thick, greyish-brown, irregularly flaking off in thin small scales; branchlets terete, stellate pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate; stipules free, lateral, to 1 cm, subulate; petiole 2.5-10 cm long, slender, stellate-tomentose; lamina 5-15 x 4-13 cm, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 3-5 lobed, base obtuse, cordate, round or truncate, apex obtuse or acute, margin crenate-dentate or subentire, coriaceous, stellate-tomentose above, velvety beneath; 5-7 nerved from base, palmate, prominent, with a single rasied elliptic nectary at the base of the midrib beneath or 3-nectaries on the principle nerves beneath, lateral nerves 3-4 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, white, in axillary and terminal panicles; peduncle stellate-tomentose; pedicel upto 5 mm long, stellate-tomentose; involucellar bracts 4-5, connate at base, obovate-spathulate, stellate-tomentose, accrescent; calyx 6 mm long, 5-lobed, divided to the middle, lobes ovate-acute, stellate-tomentose outside, silky glaucous within, accrescent; corolla 1.8 cm across in male flowers, to 1 cm across in female flowers, white; petals 4-5, adnate to the staminal column, spathulate, ciliate along the margins, clawed at base; staminal column 4 mm long, glandular throughout, hairy at base, 5-branched at apex with 4-6 sessile reniform anthers at its top; pistillode with a short style; ovary superior, 3-locular, ovules 2 in each locule; stylar branches 3, glabrous; stigmas large, peltate, minutely hairy; staminode with 3-5 clefted staminal column, each with 2-3 connate, rudimentary anthers at its apex. Fruit a capsule, 3-6 mm across, subglobose, stellate-tomentose, completely enclosed within the calyx; seeds one in each locule, reniform, concentrically striated, glabrous, brownish.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-December
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District(s):
Malappuram, Palakkad, Kannur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
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Distribution:
India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan and China
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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:
Mukkali forests, Nadugani ghats, Pathenthode, Pisiadamala, Tolpetty, Attappady R.F., Chindaki forest, Nedumkayam
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