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Nothopegia monadelpha (Roxb.) Forman
Synonym
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Blackburnia monadelpha
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Family
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Anacardiaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam - Chorappala
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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March-May
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Distribution
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South India and Sri Lanka
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Distribution
in Kerala
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Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur
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Habitat
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Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
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Key Botanical Characters:
Evergreen trees,
bark greyish-brown, smooth; exudation white, acrid, branchlets dark,
lenticellate, ultimate branchlets pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate.
Flowers small, polygamous, greenish-white, in axillary rufous racemes; calyx
small, 4-lobed; lobes orbicular, tomentose, persistent, imbricate; petals 4,
oblong, puberulus inside, densely tomentose outside, suberect with recurving tips;
disc annular, 4-lobed; stamens 4, inserted under the margin of the disc;
filaments subulate, glabrous; anthers oblong, introrse; Ovary sessile,
superior, ovoid, 1-celled, ovule pendulous from near the top of the cell;
style short; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe, fleshy, pinkish-red.
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