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Poeciloneuron
indicum Bedd.
Family
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Calophyllaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam - Poothamkolli, Vayila
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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December-June
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Distribution
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Western Ghats
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Distribution
in Kerala
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Kollam, Idukki,
Palakkad, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram,
Wayanad, Malappuram, Thrissur,
Kozhikode.
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Habitat
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Evergreen forests, also in sacred groves
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Uses
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Wood used
construction, posts, railway sleepers, furniture and agricultural implements.
Roots used in folk medicine.
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Key botanical characters:
Large evergreen
trees; up to 30 m high; bark thick, grey to brown, rough; leaves simple,
opposite, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-white, fragrant, in
axillary and terminal panicles. Sepals 5, long, ovate, puberulous without.
Petals 5, elliptic to obovate. Stamens numerous, free or slightly connate;
anthers 3, erect. Ovary 1-2 mm, bilocular; ovules 2 in each locule; styles 2,
subulate. Fruit a capsule, globose, beaked,
pink, 1-celled; seed one, fleshy.
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