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Schefflera roxburghii
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Family:
ARALIACEAE
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Citation: Schefflera roxburghii Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 570(402). 1919; Subram., Indian For. 96: 529. 1970.
Schefflera venulosa (Wight & Arn) Harmes var. roxburghii (Gamble) Khanna, Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 26:144. 2002.
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Description:
Large straggling or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, digitate, leaflets chartaceous, up to 15 x 6 cm, ovate-elliptic, apex acute, main nerves scarcely more prominent than the secondary and reticulations. Flowers in panicles of umbels or compound racemes, usually terminal; bracts usually deciduous; bracteoles 0 or few, sometimes united in a tube; pedicels, if present, not jointed. Calyx-mouth truncate or toothed. Petals 5 or 6 or many, valvate. Stamens as many as the petals. Ovary-cells as many as the petals; styles short, free. Drupes 5-6 angled; seeds compressed.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
May-July
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District(s):
Kollam, Kannur
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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):
Yes
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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
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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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