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Meteoromyrtus wynaadensis
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Meteoromyrtus wynaadensis (Bedd.) Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1918: 241. 1918 & Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 485(343). 1919; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 179. 1988; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 32.1996; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 356. 2009.
Eugenia wynaadensis Bedd., Ic. t. 161. 1868-1874; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 506. 1879.
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Description:
Trees, to 6 m high; young parts and inflorescence fulvous. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 2-5 mm long, slender, grooved above, tomentose; lamina 4-8 x 1.5-2.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, base acute, apex acuminate, margin entire, recurved, glabrous when mature, membranous; lateral nerves many, slender, parallel, close, faint, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, white, small, axillary or supra axillary; pedicel villous; bracteoles 2, linear, arising below the calyx tube and longer than the calyx; calyx tube short, not produced beyond the ovary, furnished with annual disc at the mouth; lobes 4, lanceolate, villous, rather longer than petals; petals 4, suborbicular, pellucid punctate, margin ciliate; stamens many, inserted in a ring around the disc; anthers small; ovary inferior, 2-celled, ovules 4 in each cell; pendulous from the apex; style elongate; stigma subcapitate.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-August
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District(s):
Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
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):
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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IUCN status:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Teerthundamala
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