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Tabernaemontana alternifolia L.
Synonym
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Ervatamia alternifolia
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Family
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Apocynaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam –
Kundalappala
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Flowering and
fruiting period
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April-October
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Distribution
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Southern Western
Ghats
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Distribution in
kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Moist deciduous
forests, also in sacred groves
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Key
botanical characters:
Small trees, to 8 m
high; bark corky with shallow fissures, latex milky. Leaves simple, opposite,
, elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, base acute, lateral nerves 12-15 pairs,
intercostae reticulate.Cymes terminal or axillary; peduncles to 4 cm long.
Flowers pedicellate. Calyx 4 mm long, lobes short, oblong, obtuse. Corolla
white, tube cylindric, dialated at mouth, villous inside; lobes 15 mm long,
oblong, obtuse, apex crisped. Stamens included; anthers sagitate at base,
linear. Carpels distinct. Follicles yellow, beak acuminate; aril red.
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