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Syzygium courtallensis
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Syzygium courtallensis (Gamble) Alston in Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6(Suppl.): 115. 1931; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 188. 1994.
Jambosa courtallensis Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 239. 1918 & Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 475(335). 1919.
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Description:
Trees 7-12 m tall. Leaves opposite, 7-11 x 3-5.5 cm, elliptic, obtusely acute at apex, rounded at base; intramarginal nerves double, inconspicuous. Flowers 2-3.2 cm across, pedicelled, white in terminal panicled cymes. Calyx with a staminal disc, tube thick, subcylindric, 1.2 cm long; lobes rounded, persistent. Petals 4, inserted on the top of the mouth of the calyx, broad, concave, obtuse, falling singly. Stamens very numerous, free, longer than the petals, bent inwards in the middle regularly when in bud, later unfolding. Ovary 2-celled, many-ovuled; style slender; stigma slightly acute. Fruit a 1 or 2 seeded fleshy berry, crowned by the calyx-limb and thickened disk; seeds large, angled; cotyledons thick, fleshy; radicle small, concealed between the cotyledons.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-March
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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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):
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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Pallode
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