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Viburnum coriaceum
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Family:
CAPRIFOLIACEAE
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Citation: Viburnum coriaceum Blume, Bijdr. 656. 1826; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 5. 1880; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 576(407). 1919; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 129. 1988; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 45. 1998.
Viburnum hebanthum sensu Wight, Ic. t. 1023. 1845, non Thw. 1859.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Mottumookkan
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 7 m high, bark grey. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 10-40 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 6.4-17.5 x 2.5-5.5 cm, elliptic, obovate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, base acute or obtuse, apex acuminate, margin entire or slightly serrate, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 4-6 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent, domatia present. Flowers bisexual, white, 3 mm across, in terminal or subterminal umbellate corymbs; bracteoles deciduous; calyx tube 2 mm long, pubescent, lobes 5, persistent, obtuse; corolla tube 4 mm long, tubular, glabrous; lobes 5, short, ovate-obtuse, erect, ciliate; stamens 5, inserted on the corolla tube; filaments short; ovary inferior, oblong, 1-celled, ovules 1, pendulous; style short, stigma 3 lobed. Fruit a drupe 8 x 5 mm, elliptic, compressed, ribbed, beaked, reddish-brown; seed one, 6 x 4 mm, elliptic.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
May-September
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District(s):
Idukki, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Margins of shola forests
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Distribution:
India, Bhutan, Myanmar and Indonesia
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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:
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Localities:
Sispara, Devicolam
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