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Sageraea grandiflora Dunn.
Family
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Annonaceae
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Distribution
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Western
Ghats
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Distribution in Kerala
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Idukki, Kollam
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Habitat
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Evergreen Forest
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IUCN status
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Endangered
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Endemic/Exotic
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Endemic
to the Western Ghats
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Uses
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Medicinal
purposes
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Key botanical
characters:
Trees, up to 18 m tall.
Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petioles 0.8-0.9 cm long; lamina 25-35
x 7-8 cm, oblong, apex short acuminate, base rounded, glabrous; secondary
nerves 10-13 pairs, slender; tertiary nerves reticulate. Flowers cauliflorus,
clustered below the leaf scars.
leaf scars. Cluster of berries, glabrous, many seeded.
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