Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
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📚 Overview
Description
Trees; branchlets warty, tomentose. Leaves alternate, 2-pinnate, 100 x 80 cm; pinnae 5-8 pairs, opposite; leaflets odd-pinnate, 4-6 pairs, opposite, broad-ovate or elliptic, 1-3 x 1-2 cm, chartaceous, glaucous below, base rotund, margin entire, apex obtuse, retuse, apiculae; petiole to 8 cm, pulvinate; petiolule 2 mm. Panicles ca. 20 cm, lax, divaricate, pubescent; peduncle to 6 cm; bracts and bracteoles linear 1-2 mm; pedicel jointed, to 1 cm. Flowers 1.5 cm across. Calyx -lobes 5, oblong, subequal, 0.8-1.2 x 0.4-0.6 cm, tomentose. Petals 5, white, with purple streaks, oblong-obovate, 1.5 x 0.5 cm, unequal. Fertile stamens 5; filaments 4-6 mm, pubescent; anthers 2 mm; staminodes declinate. Ovary stipitate, tomentose, 3 mm; ovules numerous on 3 parietal placentae; style slender; stigma truncate, perforate. Capsule to 60 x 1.5 cm, beaked; seeds numerous, 3-angled, 2 x 1.5 cm; wings hyaline.
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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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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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, 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 |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Dry deciduous 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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Description
Global Distribution
West Asia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Idukki
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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Maharashtra: Nasik, Raigad, Thane
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Namakkal, Nilgiri, Salem, Tiruchchirappalli, Tiruvannamalai, Viluppuram
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 |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Siddha
Sowa-Rigpa
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Sowa-Rigpa, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1464
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1464 |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Moringa concanensis Nimmo ex Dalzell & Gibson, Bombay Fl. 311. 1861.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1464
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983; Matthew, 1983, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
Information Listing > References
- Moringa concanensis Nimmo ex Dalzell & Gibson, Bombay Fl. 311. 1861.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1464
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983; Matthew, 1983, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
Tree species diversity in the Eastern Ghats of northern Andhra Pradesh, India
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Capparales |
| Family | Moringaceae |
| Genus | Moringa |
| Species | Moringa concanensis Nimmo |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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