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Palaquium bourdillonii
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Family:
SAPOTACEAE
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Citation: Palaquium bourdillonii Brandis, Indian Trees 424. 1906; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 765(537). 1921; N.C. Nair & Mohanan, Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 3: 576. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 241. 1984; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 204. 1995; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 190. 1997; Gopalan & Henry, Endemic Pl. Agasthiyamala 316. 2000.
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Description:
Trees, to 25 m high, bark greyish-brown; blaze pink red; exudation milky; branchlets sympodial, terete, ferrugenous tomentose when young. Leaves alternate, subopposite or in indistinct whorls, estipulate; petiole 6-20 mm long, stout, tomentose; lamina 9.5-17. 5 x 3-8 cm, lanceolate, obovate, oblanceolate or obovate-elliptic, base cuneate, apex obtuse, acute, obtusely acuminate to subcuspidate, margin entire, glabrous above, puberulous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, pinnate, slender, raised beneath; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, yellowish, in solitary or in few flowered axillary clusters; pedicels 2.5-4 cm long, pubescent, brown; calyx lobes 6 in 2 series; corolla campanulate, 5 mm long, lobes 6; stamens 12, attached to the base of corolla, extrorse; anthers acute, connective produced; ovary villous, 6-celled, superior, style subulate. Fruit a berry 3.5 x 1.7 cm, glabrous, fleshy, ellipsoid, beaked; seed one.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-October
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam
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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, Creamy
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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:
600-900
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Localities:
Choodal, Rosemala, Kulathupuzha, Strathmore, Hereford
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