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Ligustrum perrottetii
Synonym
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Ligustrum candolleanum
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Family
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Oleaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam-Kathikodimaram
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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February-June
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Distribution
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Western Ghats
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Distribution in Kerala
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Wayanad, Kottayam, Kollam, Palakkad, Malappuram, Thiruvananthapuram,
Idukki
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Habitat
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Evergreen, semi-evergreen and shola forests
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Endemic/Exotic
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Endemic
to Western Ghats
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Key botanical
characters :
Large shrubs or smaller trees; branchlets with circular lenticels.
Leaves, acute to acuminate, glabrous; nerves 6-8 pairs, regular faint towards
the margins; petiole 1 cm long. Panicle effuse, pubescent. Flowers many,
closely packed; pedicel 1-2 mm long; calyx 2 mm long, lobes obovate; corolla
white, 3-5 mm across, lobes ovate, obtuse, white; ovary conical, style short.
Drupe 6-7 mm long, obovoid, obtuse.
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