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Strychnos potatorum L. f.
Synonym
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Strychnos heterodoxa
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Family
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Loganiaceae
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Local name
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English
- Clearing nut tree
Malayalam
– Kadakam
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Flowering and fruiting period
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March-May
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Distribution
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Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
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Distribution in kerala
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Palakkad, Idukki, Kozhikkode
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Habitat
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Dry deciduous forests
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Key
Botanical Characters :
Trees, to 12 m high,
bark brownish-black, rough, corky with deep and narrow
vertical cracks; blaze creamy yellow. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate;
petiole glabrous; lamina elliptic, ovate,
elliptic-ovate, base obtuse or round, apex acute, margin entire, glabrous,
shiny, chartaceous; lateral nerves from the midrib
4 pairs, glabrous; intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual,
white, in short axillary cymes,calyx lobes 5, small; corolla salver shaped, hairy within,
tube cylindric, lobes 5, longer than tube; stamens 5, inserted on the corolla
tube; anthers 2-celled, introrse; ovary superior, glabrous, ovules one
in each cell; style glabrous; stigma obscurely 2 lobed.
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