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Phoebe wightii
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Phoebe wightii Meisner in DC., Prodr. 15: 38. 1864; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1228(860). 1925; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 23. 1996; Sasidh. & Anto in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 139. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 353. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 272. 2002.
Phoebe paniculata Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 142. 1886, non Nees 1836.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chudala, Mulakunari
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 10 m high; bark brown, smooth; young parts rusty, pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate, crowded at the tips of branchlets; petiole 7-15 mm long, stout, rusty pubescent when young; lamina 7.5-15 x 3-6 cm, elliptic, obovate or elliptic-obovate, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above, rusty tomentose beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-7 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-green, in axillary and lateral lax pubescent panicles; pedicel 5 mm; perianth tube short; lobes 6, 3-4.5 mm, subequal, ovate, tomentose; stamens 9 perfect, in 3 rows, those of first and second row introrse eglandular, those of third row extrorse with 2 large stipitate glands at their base; staminodes of the fourth row cordate, stipitate; anthers 4-celled; ovary half inferior, sessile, 1 mm, globose, pubescent, style 2 mm, stigma simple. Fruit a drupe, globose, 1 cm across; perianth lobes persistent, cupular, erect; epicarp fleshy; seed confirm to the fruit.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
April-May
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen and shola forests
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Distribution:
Peninsular India
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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, Green
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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:
Peninsular India
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Sairandhri, Eravangalar, Kariamchola
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