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Litsea laevigata
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Litsea laevigata (Nees) Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1236(865). 1925; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 396. 1988; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 237. 1988; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 23,31. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 351. 1998; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 702. 2009.
Tetranthera attenuata Nees var. laevigata Nees, Syst. Laurin. 677. 1836.
Litsea salicifolia (Roxb. ex Nees) Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 167. 1886.
Tetranthera salicifolia Roxb. ex Nees in Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 66. 1830.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Mulakunari
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Dioecious trees, to 10 m high; branchlets puberulus. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 8-15 mm long, stout, puberulent; lamina 6.5-18 x 2.5-5 cm, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, base slightly obliquely acute or obtuse, apex acuminate or acute, margin entire, glabrous above and puberulent beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent beneath fainting towards the margin, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers unisexual, yellowish, 10-12 in axillary or lateral subsessile umbellules; pedicelled; bracts orbicular, persistent; perianth short, lobes 6, 2 mm long, densely hairy; stamens 12, in 4 rows; filaments hairy, of 1 and 2 eglandular, those of row 3 and 4 with 2-glands; anthers 4-celled, introrse; staminodes as the stamens but those of inner rows subululate and 2-glandular; ovary half inferior, enclosed in perianth tube; style thick; stigma irregularly lobed. Fruit a berry, 1.5 cm long, ellipsoid, glabrous, yellow.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-April
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District(s):
Wayanad, Idukki, Kannur, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-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):
Yellow
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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:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Anchurali, Thekkady, Nilikkal, Nedumpoyil
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