Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Shrub
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📚 Overview
Description
Erect shrub, ca 2 m high; twigs flexuous, stellate-hairy, early glabrescent; thorns few, straight or slightly curved, 2-2.5 mm long. Leaves dimorphic, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, acute to rounded at base, acute-mucronate at apex, 2.5-9 x 0.3-3.5 cm; lateral nerves 5-7 pairs; petioles 2-6 mm long. Flowers showy, reddish purple to violet, 3.5-4.5 cm across, conferted in 3-8 flowered subumbels; pedicels 6-8 mm long, puberulous but early glabrescent. Sepals subequal, ovate, 7-8 x 3.5-4 cm, minutely puberulous outside, densely tomentose inside. Petals ovate or obovate, subequal, 1.8-2 x 0.6-0.9 cm, glabrous but tomentellous at base. Stamens 40-60, exceeding pistil. Gynophore bent, 5-9 mm long, to 11 mm in fruit, hardly incrassate. Ovary fusiform, ca 6 cm long (including beak), smooth, glabrous, often abortive; placentae 4. Fruits ovoid or ellipsoid, apiculate, 3-3.5 x ca 2 cm, smooth; seeds 8-10, 6.5-7 x ca 6 mm; stalks thin.
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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Habit: Shrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Dry Deciduous Forests, Semi-Evergreen Forests
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Semi-evergreen forests
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 |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Southern Western Ghats
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Thiruvananthapuram
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 |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Tirunelveli
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Endemic Distribution
Southern Western Ghats
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 |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Conservation Status
Vulnerable
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 |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Capparis diversifolia Wight & Arn., Prodr. 27. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 175. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 45(33). 1915; Sundararagh. in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 267. 1993; R. Sundara. & N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 228. 2005.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004
Information Listing > References
- Capparis diversifolia Wight & Arn., Prodr. 27. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 175. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 45(33). 1915; Sundararagh. in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 267. 1993; R. Sundara. & N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 228. 2005.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Capparales |
| Family | Capparaceae |
| Genus | Capparis |
| Species | Capparis diversifolia Wight & Arn. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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