875
Pavetta
breviflora DC.
Synonym
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Ixora candolleana
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Family
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Rubiaceae
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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March-December
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Distribution
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Southern Western Ghats
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Distribution in Kerala
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Idukki, Kollam, Palakkad, Kannur
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Habitat
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Evergreen and shola forests
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Uses
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The root is bitter, aperient, diuretic, purgative and
tonic. It is used for visceral
obstructions, intestinal disorders, dysentery, jaundice, headache, toothache,
urinary diseases and dropsy
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Key botanical
characters :
Shrubs or
small trees; stem stout, subquadrangular, glabrous; bark yellowish. Leaves
simple, opposite, elliptic or
elliptic-obovate, acute at apex and base, subcoriaceous, glabrous; domatia
few to many on secondary or tertiary nerves; lateral nerves 9-12 pairs,
alternate or subopposite, more prominent beneath; petioles stout, glabrous;
stipules interpetiolarnarrowly triangular, subcoriaceous, scarious at margin.
Inflorescence terminal, peduncled, trichotomously branched, corymbose cymes.
Flowers 40-50; bracts broadly triangular, membranous, glabrous
pedicelsglabrous. Hypanthium obovoid,; Calyx tube broader above, glabrous;
teeth narrowly triangular or dentate, glabrous; Corolla tube, cylindrical,
glabrous; lobes oblong, mucronulate at apex, glabrous. Staminal filaments
glabrous; Drupe, globose or subglobose, glabrous. seeds ca 4 mm.  |
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