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Tetrameles nudiflora
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Family:
DATISCACEAE
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Citation: Tetrameles nudiflora R. Br. in Bennett, Pl. Jav. Rar. 79. t.17. 1838; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 627. 1879; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 544(384). 1919; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 197. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 181. 1985; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 217. 1990; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 156. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 10,16. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 208. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 138. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 304. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 158. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 139. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 293. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 239. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 400. 2009.
Tetrameles grahamiana Wight, Ic. t. 1956. 1853.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chini, Cheeni, Cheenimaram, Vellapasa
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Description:
Deciduous dioecious trees, to 45 m high, bole buttressed; bark 10 mm thick, greyish-white, smooth, tuberculate-lenticellate. Leaves simple, alternate, crowded at the apex of branchlets 7.5-20 x 5-12 cm, orbicular-ovate or broadly ovate, apex acute-acuminate, base cordate, margin glandular-serrate, coriaceous, glabrous above, densely tomentose beneath; petiole 5-15 cm long, slender, tomentose; nerves 3-5 from base, palmate, prominent, lateral nerves 4-9 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellowish-green; female flowers sessile, in spicate pendulous panicles. Male flowers subsessile, in pubescent panicles, 4 mm across, calyx tube very short; lobes 4, ovate, united at base; petals absent; stamens 4, opposite the calyx lobes, inserted around a flat central disc; pistillode rudimentary. Female flowers: 4 x 3 mm; calyx connate with the ovary, 4-gonous; lobes 4, short; petals absent; staminodes absent; ovary inferior, 1-celled, ovules numerous on 4 parietal placentae; styles 4, subulate; stigmas club shaped. Fruit a capsule, 5-6 mm long, urceolate, faintly 8-ribbed, glandular, crowned by persistent calyx segments, opening at top; seeds minute, brown.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-May
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kasaragode, Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Wayanad, Kozhikkode, Kannur, Ernakulam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen, semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
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Distribution:
Paleotropics
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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):
Green, Yellow
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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:
700-1000
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Localities:
Peechi, Rosemala, Puthussery, Uppupara, Vengoli, Arampa, Parappa, Marapalam-Pothundy, Anmooly slopes, Nedumkayam, Balmora ridge, Ariankavu, Attayar
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