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                                       Acrotrema arnottianum Wight

Synonym	:	Acrotrema costatum Wall.
Family	:	Dilleniaceae
Local name	:	English- Arnott's Acrotrema Malayalam-  Nilampunna
Flowering and fruiting period	:	Throughout the year
Distribution	:	Southern Western Ghats
Distribution in Kerala	:	Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Thiruvananthapuram
Habitat	:	Moist deciduous to evergreen forests
Endemic/Exotic	:	Endemic to southern western ghats
Key botanical characters:  Herbs; stem very short, densely hispid. Leaves radical, rosetted, , distantly toothed, very hispid, nerves many, regular, parallel; Flowers in axillary raceme;; sepals obovate, obtuse, hairy outside; petals 5, obovate, glabrous, yellow; stamens many,  Fruit  follicles,, coherent along the innersides; seeds many, triangular.