Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
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📚 Overview
Description
Stout herbs; stems thick and very hairy. Leaves 6-17 x 2.4-4 cm, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, base attenuate, apex acuminate, densely strigose tomentose on both sides; petiole 1-2 cm long; ocrea 1.2-2.5 cm long, long-tubular, truncate, strigose, bristle ciliate. Flowers white in panicled racemes, 3.5-7.5 cm long. Bracts hispid and ciliate. Stamens 7-8. Styles 2. Nut c. 3 mm long, biconvex, shining, black.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
River banks
Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also marshy areas in the plains
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
India: North East India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu; Africa, Myanmar, Malaysia, Sri Lanka
Local Distribution
Barak Valley, Kamrup (Guwahati)
Global Distribution
Africa and Indo-Malesia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Kottayam, Alappuzha, Idukki, Thrissur
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Polygonum tomentosum Willd., Sp. Pl. 2: 447. 1799, non Schrank 1789; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 30. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1189(832). 1925.
- Polygonum pulchrum Blume, Bijdr. 530. 1826; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 603. 2009.
- Persicaria pulchra (Blume) Sojak, Preslia 46: 154. 1974; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 339. 1989; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 333. 1998.
Information Listing > References
- Polygonum tomentosum Willd., Sp. Pl. 2: 447. 1799, non Schrank 1789; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 30. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1189(832). 1925.
- Polygonum pulchrum Blume, Bijdr. 530. 1826; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 603. 2009.
- Persicaria pulchra (Blume) Sojak, Preslia 46: 154. 1974; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 339. 1989; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 333. 1998.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Polygonales |
| Family | Polygonaceae |
| Genus | Persicaria |
| Species | Persicaria attenuata |
| Infraspecies | Persicaria attenuata pulchra (Bl.) K.L. Wilson |
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