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Excoecaria agallocha L.
Synonym
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Commia cochinchinensis
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Family
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Euphorbiaceae
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Local name
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English - Blinding tree
Malayalam – Kammetti
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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November-February
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Distribution
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Indo-Malesia to Australia and Pacific
islands
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Distribution
in kerala
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Alappuzha,Kasaragode,Kollam,Thiruvananthapuram,Kannur,Thrissur,
Malappuram,Kozhikkode, , Ernakulam,
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Habitat
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Banks of backwaters
and mangrove forests
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Uses
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Used to treat epilepsy, ulcers, leprosy,
rheumatism, and paralysis.
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Key Botanical Characters :
Trees to 10 m high, bark grey, smooth Leaves simple,
alternate;. Flowers unisexual, pale green; male flowers: in axillary spikes,
each bract subtending one male flower: bracteoles narrow, on with either side
of the flower, lacinate, sessile; tepalslacinate; stamens 3, yellow;
filaments free, anthers basifixed; female flowers: in axillary racemes, 1-2
in each axil; bracteoles as in male flower; tepalslacinate, closely adpressed
to the ovary; ovary superior, tricarpellary, ovules one in each locule,
pendulous; styles 3, simple, stout.
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