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Flacourtia jangomas (Lour.) Raeusch.
Synonym
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Flacourtia cataphracta Roxb.
ex Willd.
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Family
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Salicaceae
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Local name
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English
- Puneala
plum
Malayalam
- Loika,
Lavalolikka
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Flowering and fruiting period
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November-April
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Distribution
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Widely
cultivated in South East Asia and East Africa
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Distribution in Kerala
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All
Districts
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Habitat
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Cultivated
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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The fruits and leaves are used against diarrhoea.
Dried leaves are used in treatment of bronchitis. Roots are used against
toothache.
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Small trees, 5-10 m high, dioecious; trunk and
old branches thornless; young branches with simple or branched thorns,
white-lenticelled, puberulous; bark pale brown to copper-red. Leaves alternate,
oblong-ovate to lanceolate. Flowers in axillary, subcorymbose racemes. Male
flowers: buds globose; stamens numerous, free; anthers ellipsoid, versatile,
extrorse; pistillode absent. Female flowers: buds ovoid; ovary flask-shaped
to subglobose, incompletely 4-6 loculed by false septa; ovules 2 in each
locule; connate at base, recurved and 2-lobed at apex; stigmas 4-6, dilated;
fruit a berry.
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