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Porana racemosa
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Family:
CONVOLVULACEAE
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Citation: Porana racemosa Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 41. 1824; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 566. 2009.
Porana malabarica Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 223, 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 921(647). 1923.
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Description:
Slender, herbaceous perennial twiners; stem appressed-pubescent when young, glabrous afterwards. Leaves alternate, 3-10 x 3-8 cm, ovate, acuminate, base cordate, pilose; petiole 2-5 cm long. Flowers in axillary racemes, often combined into a lax panicle; lower bracts leaf-like, with a semi-amplexicaul base; upper ones subulate; pedicels 0.3-0.6 cm long. Calyx-segments 0.15-0.25 cm long, linear-lanceolate, thinly hairy, enlarged in fruiting, up to 2 cm long. Corolla white, 0.8-1 cm long, glabrous, lobes 5, ovate, acute. Stamens included. Style well-developed; stigma shortly bilobed. Capsule 8 mm long, ovoid; seeds 6 mm long, oblong, reddish-brown, glabrous.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Idukki, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia
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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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