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Elaeocarpus
tuberculatus Roxb.
Synonym
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Elaeocarpus bilocularis
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Family
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Elaeocarpaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam–Rudraksham
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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December-August
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Distribution
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Indo-Malesia
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Along banks of streams in evergreen and shola forests
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Uses
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It may be tried for plywood. Nuts used as substitute
for 'Rudraksha' used as beads for rosaries, necklaces and bracelets.
Decoction of bark stomachic, used in biliousness, haematemesis and
indigestion; nut used in rheumatism, epilepsy and typhoid.
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Key botanical
characters :
Tree.bole buttressed; grey mottled with
white, smooth; young stem, buds, petioles and peduncles densely brown
villous; branches monopodial. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tip
of branchlets, obovate, base cuneate or round, stipules free, lateral, brown-villous.
Flowers white, in axillary racemes .Sepals 5, lanceolate, tomentose outside,
valvate. Petals 5, white, fimbriate, fulvous tomentose inserted round the
base of glandular disc. Fruit a drupe, oblong or ellipsoid, green,
ferrugenous tomentose, stones single, compressed, coarsely tuberculate.  |
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