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Syzygium zeylanicum (L.) DC
Synonym
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Acmena parviflora
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Family
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Myrtaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam –Velutthakanali
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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January-April
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Distribution
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Indo-MalesiaIndo-Malesia
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Distribution in Kerala
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Kottayam, Alappuzha, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Kannur,
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Habitat
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Banks of streams in evergreen forests, also in scrub jungles
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Uses
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Traditionally leaf extracts has been used to treat
various ailments such as joint pain, head ache, arthritis and fever.
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Key botanical
characters :
Large shrub to small trees, to 10 m high, bark black.. Leaves simple,
opposite, estipulate; petiole, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina
elliptic-lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong,
base obtuse, round or acute, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, pellucid
dotted, glabrous, glossy, coriaceous; lateral nerves many, parallel, looped
near the margin forming intramarginal nerve, prominent, intercostae
reticulate, slender, faint. Flowers bisexual, in axillary and terminal cymes,
small, white. pedicel slender; calyx tube campanulate, greyish, gland-dotted,
25-30 mm long; lobes 5, 1 mm long, ovate; petals 5, , free, deciduous, white;
Fruit a berry, , white, gland-dotted, crowned with calyx segments.
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