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Nothopegia racemosa
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Family:
ANACARDIACEAE
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Citation: Nothopegia racemosa (Dalz.) Ramam. in Saldanha & Nicolson, Fl. Hassan Dist. 377. 1976; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 67. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 119. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 138. 1990; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 21, 29; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 84. 1998; D. Chandra & S.K. Mukh. in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 476. 2000; V. Chandra. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 812. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 255. 2009.
Glycycarpus racemosus Dalz., J. Asiat. Soc. Bombay 3: 69. 1849.
Nothopegia dalzellii Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 265(189). 1918.
Nothopegia colebrookeana sensu Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2:40.1876p.p., non (Wight) Blume 1850.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Naicheru
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 10 m high, bark greyish-brown, smooth; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, 12-20 x 3.5-6.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, apex acuminate, base acute, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; petiole 8-20 mm, stout, glabrous; lateral nerves 13-many, parallel, prominent; intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers small, polygamous, white, bracteate, in axillary, rusty pubescent racemes. Calyx small, 4-lobed, persistent, imbricate; lobes broadly ovate, pubescent above with many longitudinal swellings beneath. Petals 4, oblong, glabrous except ciliate hairs on the mid nerve, in curved, imbricate; disc annular, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, inserted under the margin of the disc; filaments glabrous or slightly pubescent; anthers shortly oblong, introrse. Ovary sessile, superior, ovoid, 1-celled; ovule pendulous from near the top of the cell from a flattened funicle; style short; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe, fleshy, globose, transversely oblong, striate, depressed at apex; pericarp thin; seed pendulous.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
May-June
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District(s):
Idukki, Kannur, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
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:
Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-1650
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Localities:
Kunnar, Chandanathode, Damsite, Sispara, on way to Brahmagiri
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