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Syzygium calophyllifolium
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Syzygium calophyllifolium Walp., Rep. 2: 180. 1843; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 480(339). 1919; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 104. 1988; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 261. 1997; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 59. 2000; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 260. 2002.
Eugenia calophyllifolia (Walp.) Wight, Ic. t. 1000. 1845; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 494. 1878.
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 20 m high; bark thick, brown, rough; blaze pink; branchlets terete. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 2-3 mm, stout, glabrous; lamina 2-5 x 1.5-3 cm, obovate or suborbicular, base obtuse, or round, obtusely acute or slightly emarginate, margin entire, glabrous, pellucid dotted, coriaceous; lateral nerves many, parallel, slender, very close, prominent, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate, slender but prominent. Flowers bisexual, white, in dense terminal corymbs; peduncle 4 angled, articulated at ramifications; calyx tube 3 mm long, ovoid; lobes 4, minute; petals 4, calyptrate; stamens many, bent inwards at the middle in bud; ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules many; style 5-6 mm long. Fruit a berry, 10-12 mm long, oblong or obovoid, dark purple.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-May
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Malappuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
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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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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-1600
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Localities:
Sispara, Karuvarakundu, Vavalamala, Agasthymala peak
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