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Salacia fruticosa Wall. Synonym of Salacia fruticosa Wall.

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  • Malayalam
    Ponkarandi,
    Eakanayakam
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    Korandi
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  • Overview
    Overview
    Brief
    Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Climber
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    • Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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    Description
    Woody climbing shrubs; branchlets looped; young shoots puberulous. Leaves 3.8 - 7 x 2-4 cm, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, base rounded or cuneate, apex obtusely acuminate, coriaceous; petiole c. 5 mm long. Cymes axillary; pedicels 3-5 mm long. Calyx 5-lobed, minute; lobes minutely ciliate on margins. Petals 5, brownish-yellow, c. 2 mm across, orbicular. Disc fleshy. Stamens 3, inserted on the inner margin of the disc; filaments broad, curved. Ovary globose, minute, partially sunk in the disc, 3-celled; ovules 2-8 in each cell; style very short; stigma capitate, obscurely 3-lobed. Berry 2-2.5 cm across, globose, red. Seeds 1-3.
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    Habit: Shrub
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    • G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
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  • Nomenclature and Classification
    Nomenclature and Classification
  • Natural History
    Natural History
    Cyclicity
    Flowering and fruiting: February-May
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    Miscellaneous Details
    Notes: Western Ghats , Evergreen Forests
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  • Habitat and Distribution
    Habitat and Distribution
    General Habitat
    Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, also in the sacred groves and plains
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    Distribution
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    Global Distribution

    Western Ghats

    Indian distribution

    State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts

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    Kerala: All districts Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dindigul, Kanniyakumari
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    Endemic Distribution
    Western Ghats
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  • Occurrence
    Occurrence
    Occurrence Records

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  • Uses and Management
    Uses and Management
    Uses
    Medicinal
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  • Information Listing
    Information Listing
    References
    Nomenclature and Classification > Taxon Record Name > Scientific Name
    1. Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983
    2. Salacia fruticosa Heyne ex Lawson in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 628. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 215(155). 1918; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 66. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 116. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 101. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 98. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 104. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 123. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 118. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 108. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 68. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 69. 1998; K. Ramam. & B.D. Naithani in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 153. 2000; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 67. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 164. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 127. 2005; K. Ramam. & P. Venu in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 720. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 173. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 225. 2009.
    Information Listing > References
    1. Salacia fruticosa Heyne ex Lawson in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 628. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 215(155). 1918; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 66. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 116. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 101. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 98. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 104. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 123. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 118. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 108. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 68. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 69. 1998; K. Ramam. & B.D. Naithani in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 153. 2000; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 67. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 164. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 127. 2005; K. Ramam. & P. Venu in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 720. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 173. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 225. 2009.
    2. Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983

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