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Mitrephora grandiflora
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Family:
ANNONACEAE
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Citation: Mitrephora grandiflora Bedd., Ic. t. 101. 1868-1874; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 78. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 19(14). 1915; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 63. 1984; Debika Mitra in B. D. Sharma et al., Fl. India 1: 243. 1993; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 29. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 16. 1997.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Manjara
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Tamil name(s):
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Description:
Trees 7-12 m tall; bark black, smooth; branchlets horizontal; young shoots golden-brown, tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, estipulate; petiole 1 mm, pubescent when young, stout, slightly grooved above; lamina 4-15 x 3-7.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate; base obtuse, round or truncate; apex acute or slightly acuminate; margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, glabrescent beneath with hairy glands in the axil of leaves; lateral veins 6-10 pairs, pinnate, intercostae reticulate, intramarginal nerves present, nerves pubescent and prominent beneath. Flowers bisexual, white, turning yellow, solitary or in groups of 2-3 in leaf opposed cymes; pedicels 1 cm long; sepals 3, densely tomentose, connate at base, broadly ovate or orbicular 4-5 mm across, yellowish-brown pubescent; petals 6 (3+3), outer petals 3 x 2 cm, obovate-acute, white, turning yellow, pubescent outside, subglabrous inside; inner ones 1-1.5 x 0.3-0.5 cm lozenge shaped, triangular at apex with long broad claw, veluted and cohering, white with red streaks, tomentose on both sides, inner petal dissimilar to the outer, forming a mitriform cap over the stamens and carpels, cauducous; torus convex; stamens many, oblong, 1 mm long, connectives flat at top, hiding the anther cells; carpels many, oblong-ovate, 2 mm long, strigose; ovules 4-6; stigma club shaped. Fruit aggregate of berries, fruitlets globose, tomentose; seeds 1-2.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-April
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District(s):
Kollam, Thrissur, Kasaragode
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen and 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):
White, 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:
Vulnerable (VU)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Peechi, Vellanimala, Kallar, Rosemala
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