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Suregada multiflora
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Suregada multiflora (A. Juss.) Baill., Etud. Gen. Euphorb. 396. 1858; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 341. 1995; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 220. 2007.
Gelonium multiflorum A.Juss., Tent. Euph. 111, t. 10,f. 31A.1812; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 459. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1343(940). 1925.
Gelonium fasciculatum Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 832. 1832.
Suregada angustifolia sensu Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 271. 1982, non (Muell.-Arg.) Airy Shaw, 1969.
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Description:
Small trees; bark grey, wood yellowish-white, close-grained. Leaves alternate, 8-17 x 3-6 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute, with few serrations towards the apex, coriaceous. Flowers rather large, many, in cymes or clusters. Calyx in male of 5, concave orbicular imbricate lobes, in female of 5-6 narrower lobes. Petals 0. Disk in male 0, in female copular, the glands large, peripheric. Stamens 10-60, free, central on a convex receptacle, often mixed with rugose glands; filaments filiform; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, the cells parallel. Ovary 2-4 celled; ovule 1 in each cell; style minute, reniform semilunate or bifid, depressed. Capsule rough, obscurely lobed, 1.2-1.8 cm in diameter; seeds subglobose, arillate; testa crustaceous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-May
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District(s):
Kollam, Malappuram, Kozhikkode
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen 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, 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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Thenmalai
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