Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Climber
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Secamone kleinii K. Schum. |
🗒 Common Names
| No Data |
📚 Overview
Description
Twiner; branchlets puberulous. Leaves decussate, elliptic to obovate, to 8 x 4 cm, subcoriaceous, puberulous below, base obtuse, apex short-acuminate; petiole to 1.5 cm. Cymes dichasial, lax; peduncle to 3 cm, puberulous; bracts lanceolate, 3 mm; pedicel 0.5 cm. Calyx-lobes 5, ovate, 4 mm, rusty puberulous without. Corolla broad-campanulate, cream, 1 cm wide; lobes 5, oblong, 1 cm, recurved, overlapping to left in bud. Corona 1, of 5 erect, dorsally flattened segments attached to staminal column. Stamens 5; connective produced above; pollen masses 2 per cell, ascending. Style apex elongate, longer than staminal column. Follicles paired, elongate, fusiform, 15 x 1 cm; seeds oblong, 1.5 x 0.6 cm; coma silky.
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 |
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Dry Evergreen to Dry Deciduous 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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Moist deciduous forests and sacred groves
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 |
Description
Global Distribution
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Alappuzha, Kasaragode, Palakkad, 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 |
Karnataka: Hassan, N. Kanara
Kerala: Alapuzha, Kasaragod, Palakkad, Thrissur
Tamil Nadu: Namakkal, Nilgiri, Kancheepuram, Thiruvallur, Tirunelveli, Tiruvannamalai
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 |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Toxocarpus kleinii Wight & Arn. in Wight, Contrib. 61.1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4:14.1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 830(584). 1923; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 233. 1985; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 292. 1990; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 442. 2009.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Mayuranathan 1929
Information Listing > References
- Toxocarpus kleinii Wight & Arn. in Wight, Contrib. 61.1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4:14.1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 830(584). 1923; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 233. 1985; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 292. 1990; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 442. 2009.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Mayuranathan 1929
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Gentianales |
| Family | Apocynaceae |
| Genus | Toxocarpus |
| Species | Toxocarpus kleinii Wight & Arn. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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