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Synonym |
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Baccaurea macrostachya (Wight & Arn.) Hook.f. |
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Family |
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Euphorbiaceae |
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Local name |
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Malayalam- Mootilpazham |
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Flowering and fruiting period |
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January-June |
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Distribution |
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Peninsular India |
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Distribution in kerala |
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All Districts |
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Habitat |
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Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests |
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Uses |
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The bark of the plant is used as a
tonic in disorders of mucous membrane and to heal wounds and its root is used
in controlling diabetes. |
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Key botanical characters: Evergreen trees to 15 m
high; bole uneven with tubercles; bark greyish-yellow,; branchlets terete,
rough. Leaves simple, alternate, often clustered towards the tip of
branchlets, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, apex
acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base acute, attenuate or cuneate, margin
entire, membranous to chartaceous, scattered white furfuraceous above and
beneath, often scattered puberulous on midrib beneath; stipules 3-5 mm long,
lateral, lanceolate, cauducous; petiole slender, grooved
above, glabrescent or puberulous; lateral nerves 4-7 pairs, pinnate, slender,
faint, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers unisexual, dark crimson, in
densely clustered slender racemes on mature stem. Male flowers: bracts
lanceolate, linear-lanceolate or triangular, free, conduplicate, encircling
the base of lateral branches; tepals 4-5, linear, oblong,
elliptic, suborbicular or oblanceolate, glabrous or sparsely puberulous;
stamens 4-8, free; anthers basifixed; pistillode clavate. Female flowers:
bracts lanceolate; tepals 4-5, linear,
oblong or oblong-elliptic, sparsely puberulous to glabrous, ciliate; ovary
superior, ovoid or subglobose, 3-locular, ovules 2 in each
cell, 3-angled, tomentose; stigmas 3, flabellate. Fruit a capsule.  |
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