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Ficus microcarpa L.f.
Synonym
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Ficus aggregate Vahl
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Family
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Moraceae
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Local name
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English- Chinese banyan, Indian Laurel
Malayalam- Ithi
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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March - May
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Distribution
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Indo-Malaysia to Pacific Islands and South China
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Distribution
in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Evergreen and
semi-evergreen forests, also in the Plains.
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IUCN Status
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Least Concern
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Endemic
/Exotic
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Endemic to China
through tropical Asia and the
Caroline Islands to Australia.
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Uses
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Bark
and buds are used for skin diseases, ulcers and vaginal diseases.
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Key
botanical characters:
Evergreen trees, usually
epiphytic, to 18 m high, aerial Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; Flowers
unisexual; inflorescence a syconia of 4 kinds; male
flowers numerous; sessile or shortly pedicelled; tepals 3, subspathulate,
free; stamen 1; filament 0.3 mm; anthers unequal, ovate-oblong, mucronate;
female flowers sessile, sepals 3, spathulate, ovary superior, smooth, stigma
cylindric or clavate; gall flowers pedicellate; tepals 3, broadly spathulate.
Syconium 8-10 mm across, globose, glabrous, pink with yellow shades when
ripe; achenes smooth.
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