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Cynometra
travancorica Bedd.
Family
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Fabaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam-Koori
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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September-April
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Distribution
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Southern Western Ghats
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Distribution in Kerala
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Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, T
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Habitat
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Semi-evergreen and evergreen forests
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IUCN status
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Endangered (EN)
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Endemic/Exotic
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Endemic to Southern Western Ghats
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Uses
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Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities
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Key botanical
characters :
Evergreen trees, to 20 m high, surface reddish-brown, smooth,
lenticellate; blaze reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, 2-foliate; stipules
small, free, lateral, cauducous;, stout, pulvinate, glabrous; petiolule,
opposite; leaflet often falcate, ovate-oblong, oblong or lanceolate, unequal
sided, base oblique, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous,
coriaceous;.Flowers rosy white, in short dense flowered axillary racemes;
pedicel slender, pubescent, sepals 4, oblong, reflexed, glabrous; petals 5,
subequal, clawed; Fruit a pod flat, smooth, rugose along the margin,
semicircular, the inner suture nearly straight, the outer one widely curved,
indehiscent; seed one.
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