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Uvaria narum (Dunal) Wall.exHook.f.
&Thoms.
Synonym
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Uvaria narum Wall. ex Hook. f. & Thoms. var.
macrophylla Hook. f. & Thoms.
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Family
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Annonaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam-Korandapazham
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Flowering and
fruiting period
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November-June
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Distribution
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South India and Sri Lanka
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Distribution in
kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Along coastal areas and deciduous forests
at low altitudes
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Uses
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Root and leaves-used in intermittent
fevers, biliousness, jaundice; also in rheumatic affections; bruised in salt
water, used in skin diseases. A decoction of the root bark is given to women
to control fits at the time of delivery.
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Key botanical characters :
Scandent shrubs, branchlets sparsely
hairy. Leaves elliptic, lanceolate, apex acuminate, base rounded, thin
coriaceous, lower surface brownish. Flowers solitary, leaf opposed;
tomentose; sepals, broadly ovate, tomentose, basally connate; petals fleshy,
, obovate, tomentose, apex incurved, golden-brown; anthers concealed by
connectives; carpels numerous, oblong, tomentose.
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