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Pyrenacantha volubilis
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Family:
ICACINACEAE
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Citation: Pyrenacantha volubilis Wight in Hook.'s Bot. Misc. 2: 107. 1831 & Illustr. Suppl. 9 & 10. 1831; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 198(142). 1915; R. Mathur in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 34. 2000; Sathosh Kumar et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 25:729.2001; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 156. 2002; N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 689. 2005.
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Description:
Much branched climber. Leaves rhomboid-lanceolate, obtuse at base, coarsely 3 or 4-toothed at margin, retuse or mucronate at apex, to 12 x 3.5 cm, subcoriaceous, scabrid beneath with a pair of glands at base; petioles ca 1 cm long. Male flowers in spikes and female ones in heads. Male flowers: Calyx absent. Petals 4, connate at base, valvate, oblong, inflexed at apex, pubescent outside; stamens 4; pistillode minute, villous. Female flowers: Staminode minute; ovary ellipsoid, pubescent, 1-loculed with 2 pendulous, collateral ovules; stigma sessile with radiating branches. Drupes ovoid, laterally compressed, ca 1.5 x 1 cm, orange to red, fleshy; endocarp thin, punctate outside, papillose inside projecting into ruminate endosperm.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
June-November
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests, also in the sacred groves
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Distribution:
South Asia
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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):
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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:
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Localities:
Karamanayar region
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