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Streptosolen jamesonii
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Family:
SOLANACEAE
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Citation: Streptosolen jamesonii Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 5: 208. 1850.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Marmalade Bush, Orange Marmalade
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Description:
Compact shrubs; branchlets flexuous, pubescent. Leaves alternate, to 3 x 2 cm, ovate to elliptic, base obtuse, apex acute, rugose; petiole to 1 cm. Panicles corymbose, dense, terminal or in upper axils, to 15 cm; pedicel to 1 cm. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 1 cm, pubescent, 5-lobed. Corolla tubular-campanulate, orange red, 2 cm wide; tube 2 cm, twisted below; lobes 5, broad oblong. Stamens 4, didynamous; filaments of longer pair to 1.2 cm with perfect anthers; those of shorter pair 4 mm, with 1 cell of each anther aborted. Ovary stipitate, 2 celled; ovules numerous, on axile placentae; style 2 cm; stigmatic lobes reflexed.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-June
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant
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Distribution:
Native of South America
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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):
Orange, Red
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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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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