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Stictocardia tiliifolia (Desr.) Hall.f. in Engl.
Synonym
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Argyreia campanulata
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Family
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Convolvulaceae
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Flowering and fruiting period
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November-February
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Distribution
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Circumtropical;
cultivated widely and introduced in the New World
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Distribution in Kerala
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Palakkad, Kannur, Thrissur,
Kozhikkode, Wayanad
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Habitat
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Along sea coasts and scrub
jungles, also grown as garden plant
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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The sap has been used for
coagulating the latex of Castilla elastic and also for ornamental purpose
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Key botanical characters:
Twining subshrubs. Leaves 5-9 x
6-9 cm, broadly ovate to cordiform, apex acute, base cordate, chartaceous,
margin entire, glabrous above and hairy along nerves below; petiole to 8 cm.
Flower axillary, solitary; bracts cauducous; corolla pink, 7 cm across,
funnel-form; stamens 5, unequal, to 3.5 cm; ovary conical, 1.5 mm, 4-locular,
each 1-ovuled, style 3.5 cm, stigma biglobose. Capsule indehiscent;
accrescent calyx enlarged and fleshy.
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