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Mitrephora heyneana
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Family:
ANNONACEAE
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Citation: Mitrephora heyneana (Hook. f. & Thoms.) Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 8. 1864; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 19(14). 1915; Debika Mitra in B. D. Sharma et al., Fl. India 1: 244. 1993; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 12. 1999; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 58. 2002.
Orophea heyneana Hook. f. & Thoms., Fl. Ind. 110. 1855; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 77. 1872.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Thutta, Vettulingi
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Description:
Trees 7-12 m tall; bark 5-6 mm thick, smooth, pale brown; branches ascending, puberulous when young, later glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, estipulate; petiole 4-7 mm, slender, pubescent when young, glabrous when mature, canaliculate above; lamina 5-12 x 2.5-6 cm, ovate-lanceolate or ovate; base obtuse or round; apex acuminate; margin entire, glabrous above, pubescent beneath when young, glabrous when mature, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, intercostae, reticulate, slightly prominent beneath. Flowers bisexual, solitary or 2-3 together in axillary or leaf-opposed cymes, yellowish; pedicels 3-5 mm long, tomentose; sepals 3, minute, ovate or orbicular, brown pubescent; petals 6 (3+3), outer petals 10-15 x 5-8 mm, elliptic obovate or ovate-lanceolate, yellow, pubescent outside and downy on innersides, inner petals 5-8 x 3-5 mm, clawed, cohering, dissimilar to outer, trapezoid, yellow streaked with pink, upper half densely tomentose inside; stamens many, oblong-cuneate, anthers concealed by flat connectives; carpels 6-9, oblong, strigose, style short, stigma globular, sessile, ovules in two rows; Fruit aggregate of berries, fruitlets 1.5 x 1.2 cm, sessile or subsessile, obovoid to subglobose, apiculate, some times constructed between seeds, yellow pubescent, pedicels thick; seeds 1-3.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-June
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District(s):
Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
South India and Sri Lanka
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
800-1200
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Localities:
Kombakkayam, Chengamperu, Bonaccord
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