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Tibouchina urvilleana
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Family:
MELASTOMATACEAE
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Citation: Tibouchina urvilleana (DC.) Cogn., Fl. Bras. 14: 358. 1885.
Lasiandra urvilleana DC., Prodr. 3: 130. 1828.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Princess Flower
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Description:
Large shrubs; branchlets 4-angled, densely hirsute. Leaves to 9 x 4 cm, decussate, ovate-oblong, coriaceous, velvety pubescent, 5-7 ribbed; base acute, margin entire, apex acuminate; petiole 1 cm. Panicles terminal, to 12 cm; peduncle densely puberulous. Flowers to 7 cm wide, 5-merous; pedicel 1 cm; bracts boat-shaped. Hypanthium tubular, to 3.8 cm, densely pubescent; intersepalar emergence 0; lobes oblong-lanceolate, 1.5 x 0.4 cm, densely pubescent, spreading, margin ciliate, apex acuminate. Petals 5, violet, obovate, 3.5 cm wide, spreading. Stamens 10, declinate; antesepalous 5 long (4 cm) and antepetalous 5 short (2.5 cm); anthers spurred; connectives with 2 basal tubercles. Ovary inferior, 5-celled, 10 angled; ovules numerous, axile; style 3 cm, basally gland-tipped, curved. Capsules 5-valved with persistent hypanthium, 1.5 x 0.8 cm, dehiscing loculicidally; seeds numerous.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-January
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Introduced as garden plant, now getting naturalised in the high ranges
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Distribution:
Native of South America
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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):
Purple
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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