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Artocarpus hirsutus Lam.
Synonym
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Artocarpus
pubescens
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Family
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Moraceae
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Local name
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English - Aini, Wild
jack
Malayalam
- Anjili,
Ayani
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Flowering and fruiting period
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December-March
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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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Semi-evergreen
and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
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IUCN Status
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Least concerned
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Endemic/Exotic
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Southern Western Ghats
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Uses
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Leaves are useful in treating bubo and
hydrocele. Ripe fruits are used in anorexia. Bark cures small pimples, cracks
on the skin and sores.
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Evergreen
trees, up to 45 m high, bark 10-15 mm thick, surface dull grey-brown, smooth.
Leaves simple, alternate, broadly ovate, obovate or
elliptic, apex subacute or very shortly acuminate, base acute, obtuse or
round, margin entire, undulate, coriaceous, glabrous above. Flowers
unisexual, minute, yellowish-green; male in axillary, pendulous, narrowly
cylindric spikes upto 15 cm long; tepals 2, united below; stamen 1; anther
exserted, ovate, bracteoles chaffy; female flowers in axillary ovoid spikes;
perianth tubular, confluent below with the receptacle; ovary superior,
straight, ovule pendulous; style exserted; stigma undivided. Fruit a sorosis,
globose or ovoid, echinate, yellow when ripe, the spines cylindric, straight,
hispid; seeds 16-18 mm long, ovoid, white.
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