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Xanthophyllum
arnottianum Wight
Family
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Polygalaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam
– Madukka
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Flowering and fruiting period
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Throughout the year
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Distribution
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Western Ghats
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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 sacred groves in the plains
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Endemic/Exotic
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Endemic to western
ghats
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Trees, to 10 m high, bark greenish-grey, smooth, semi-fibrous; branchletspuberulus.
Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, oblong, ovate-lanceolate
or oblong-lanceolate, base acute or obtuse, apex acuminate, margin entire,
glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, pinnate, prominent,
intercostae reticulate, prominent; petiole slender, glabrous. Flowers
bisexual, in terminal or axillary panicled racemes, yellowish-white. Sepals
5,subequal, suborbicular, finely tomentose. Petals 5, yellow, unequal, lower
boat-shaped. Stamens 8; filament free, 2 hypogynous, to the base of petals in
pairs, others adnate to the base of the petals; disc 5-lobed.  |
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