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Canthium angustifolium
Roxb.
Synonym
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Canthium leschenaultii
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Family
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Rubiaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam - Kattakara
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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March-May
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Distribution
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India and Myanmar
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Distribution
in Kerala
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Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Kannur, Thrissur, Wayanad, Thiruvananthapuram,
Malappuram, Kozhikode.
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Habitat
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Moist deciduous, semi-evergreen and evergreen forests
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Uses
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The leaves are used as anti-inflammatory and the roots as
anticephalgic.
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Key botanical characters :
Erect shrubs with
slender branches; spines slender, straight. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate; domatia glandular; petiole 3-6 mm long; stipule acuminate,
villous within. Cymes short, sessile. Flowers shortly pedicelled; calyx tube
nearly truncate; corolla tube globose, lobes lanceolate,
spreading; anthers strongly cuspidate, hispid at tip. Style densely bearded at middle. Drupe globose, black.
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