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Pachygone ovata
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Family:
MENISPERMACEAE
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Citation: Pachygone ovata (Poir.) Miers ex Hook. f. & Thoms., Fl. Ind. 203. 1855 & in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 105. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 31(22). 1915; Gangop. in B. D. Sharma et al., Fl. India 1:329.1993; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 15. 1999.
Cissampelos ovata Poir. in Lam., Encycl. 5:10. 1804.
Cocculus plukenetii DC., Syst. Nat. 1: 520. 1817.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Katukodyvally
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Description:
Woody climbers; branchlets yellowish-puberulous to pubescent, later glabrescent. Leaves, simple, alternate, 4.5-11 x 2-7.5 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or broadly ovate, base truncate to broadly obtuse, apex obtuse to acutely acuminate, mucronate, closely reticulate, visible on both surface, softly pubescent to glabrous on both surfaces; petioles 2.5-4 cm, yellowish-pubescent to glabrous. Inflorescences solitarily or 2-3 arising together, 4-17 cm long, yellowish-tomentose to pubescent the flowers in clusters of 3-5 along the main axis. Male flowers: pedicels 1-4 mm; sepals yellow, outer 3(-6) bracteoliform, elliptic, 1-2 mm long, puberulous outside; inner 3(-6) elliptic to rotund, 1.5-2.5 mm long, sparsely hairy or glabrous; petals oblong with basal auricles clasping opposite stamen, 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous; staminal filaments slender, 1.25-1.5 mm long. Female flowers: staminodes minute; carpels ovoid, 0.75 mm long, style flattened. Drupes on pedicels 3-5 mm long, 7-8 x 6 mm, 5 mm thick, glabrous, drying rather smooth.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-September
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District(s):
Idukki, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia to Australia
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-900
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Localities:
Chinnar
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