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Syzygium grande
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Syzygium grande (Wight) Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 180. 1843; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 360. 2009.
Eugenia grandis Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. 2: 17. 1841.
Eugenia montana Wight, Ic. t. 1060. 1846, non Aubl. 1775; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 488. 1878.
Syzygium montanum (Wight) Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 479(339). 1919, non Thw. 1859.
Syzygium tamilnadensis Rathkr. & Chithra in N.C. Nair & Henry, Fl. Tamil Nadu India 1: 158. 1983, nom. superfl.; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 183. 1988; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 32. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 129. 1999; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 265. 2002.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kallunjaval, Poriyil
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 20 m high, bark dark brown, peeling off in small flakes; branchlets tetragonous. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 5-16 mm, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 3-12.5 x 2.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, obovate or elliptic-obovate, base cuneate, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous, pellucid-dotted; lateral nerves many, parallel, slender, slightly distant, prominent, looped near the margin forming intramarginal nerve; intercostae reticulate, slender, faint. Flowers bisexual, 5 mm across, sessile, white, in axillary or terminal corymbose panicles, inflorescence branches stout; calyx tube 3 mm long, obconic; lobes 4; no thick disc; petals calyptrate; stamens many, bent inwards regularly middle in bud, filaments 5-6 mm long; ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules many; style 1; stigma simple. Fruit a berry, 6-8 mm across, globose, purple, succulent, crowned by calyx limb.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-May
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District(s):
Wayanad, Idukki, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola 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
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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:
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Altitude:
1400-1700
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Localities:
Pothumala, Teerthundamala, Pongalapara
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