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Loeseneriella arnottiana (Wight) A.C. Sm.

Synonym	:	Hippocratea arnottiana Wight
Family	:	Celastraceae
Local name	:	English- Arnott's Hippocratea
Flowering and fruiting period	:	February-March
Distribution	:	Western Ghats
Distribution in Kerala	:	Idukki, Kannur, Palakkad, Thrissur
Habitat	:	Evergreen Forests
Key botanical characters: Arnott's Hippocratea is a climbing shrub; branchlets round, hairless. It was named for George Arnold Walker-Arnott, 19th century Scottish botanist and Professor of Botany at Glasgow University. Leaves are ovate-elliptic, 10 - 18 x 4 - 7.5 cm, pointed at tip, base blunt, leathery, entire or faintly rounded toothed; venation netveined, prominent. Flowers are borne in cymes in leaf-axils, about 8 mm across. Calyx is 5-lobed; sepals triangular, entire, hairless. Petals are 5, round, with narrow claw, hairless, fringed. Fruit is a samara, narrowly oblong, 8 x 2.5 cm, blunt, striped.