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Synonym
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Agyneia flexuosa
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Family |
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Euphorbiaceae |
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Local
name |
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Malayalam- Neervetti |
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Flowering
and fruiting period |
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March-May |
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Distribution |
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Indo-Malesia |
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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, also in the plains |
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Key botanical characters: Trees to 8 m high, bark
brown, smooth, longitudinally cracked; blaze pink-red; branchlets grey,
glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral; petiole slender,
glabrous; lamina oblong, oblong-lanceolate, ovate-oblong, elliptic,
ovate-elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or rarely oblanceolate, base oblique,
cordate, truncate, obtuse or round, apex apiculate to obtusely acuminate or
acute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, glossy; lateral nerves 4-12
pairs, raised beneath, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent.
Flowers unisexual, yellow, supra-axillary or rarely in axillary umbels; male
flowers oblong, ovate, suborbicular or obovate; stamens, connate by their
connectives in a coloum; connectives produced; female flowers: triangular,
deltoid, oblong, ovate or suborbicular, occasionally the perianth cupular;
ovary superior, , subglobose or depressed, tomentose or glabrous; 4-7
locular, ovules 2 in each cell; styles to 3.5 mm long, free and triangular,
connivent and columnar, conical to clavate; apical lobes 4-7, triangular,
oblong or suborbicular. Fruit a capsule, , depressed to subglobose, unlobed or
obscurely lobed, 4-7 locular, puberulous to glabrous, beaked, orange;
pedicels 2-8 mm long.  |
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