| |
Paracalyx scariosa
|
| |
|
| |
Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Papilionoideae)
|
| |
Citation: Paracalyx scariosa (Roxb.) Ali, Univ. Studies Karachi 5: 95. 1968; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 150. 1988; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 227. 1992; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 111. 1998; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 300. 2009.
Cylista scariosa Roxb., Pl. Corom. 1: 64. t.92. 1795; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 219. 1876; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 371(262). 1918.
|
| |
Malayalam Name(s):
Alisogurmottu, Sogurmottu
|
| |
Tamil name(s):
|
| |
English name(s):
Ran Ghevada
|
| |
Description:
Twining shrubs; stem densely villous. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 4 x 2.5 cm, ovate, acute, densely hispid below, petiole 4 cm long; stipules ovate. Racemes to 10 cm long, axillary, many-flowered. Flowers 3.5 cm long; calyx 2-lipped; upper lip smaller, 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed; middle lobe boat-shaped; reticulate, scarious; petals included, standard 17 x 12 mm, obovate, deeply auricled at base, hispid, yellow; wings 13 mm long, oblong; keel 13 x 8 mm, obovate, clawed. Stamens 9+1; ovary sessile, hispid, 1-ovuled; style hairy at base, swollen at middle. Pods falcate-ovate, hairy.
|
| |
Habit:
Climber
|
| |
Flowering & Fruiting:
February-May
|
| |
District(s):
Idukki, Kannur, Wayanad
|
| |
Medicinal:
|
| |
Habitat:
Moist deciduous forests
|
| |
Distribution:
Nepal, India, Myanmar and Thailand
|
| |
Aquatic:
No
|
| |
Epiphyte(s):
No
|
| |
Saprophyte:
No
|
| |
Stem parasite:
No
|
| |
Root parasite:
No
|
| |
Flower colour(s):
Yellow
|
| |
Weed:
No
|
| |
Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
|
| |
Exotic:
No
|
| |
Garden:
No
|
| |
Edible:
No
|
| |
Vegetable:
No
|
| |
Endemic to:
|
| |
IUCN status:
|
| |
Altitude:
|
| |
Localities:
Thekkady, Begur, Tolpetty
|