Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
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📚 Overview
Description
Erect herbs; stem and branches winged. Leaves opposite, sessile, to 4.5 x 1.5 cm, ovate-acute, base cuneate, 3-ribbed, membranous, glabrous. Flowers in terminal and axillary, dichotomously branched, lax cymes; bracts leafy; bracteoles lanceolate. Calyx tubular, c.4 mm long, lobes lanceolate. Corolla rose, tube. 5 mm, limb zygomorphic. Stamens 4, one longer; stigma bilobed. Capsule linear.
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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Habit: Herb
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: Evergreen forests.Endemic to Western Ghats
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
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Maharashtra: Pune, Ratnagiri, Satara, Sindhudurg
Karnataka: Chikmagalur, S. Kanara
Kerala: Kannur, Kozhikode, Malapuram, Wynad
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 |
Global Distribution
Western Ghats
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Wayanad, Malappuram, Kannur, Kozhikkode, 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 |
Endemic Distribution
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 |
| 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
- Canscora pauciflora Dalz. in Hook.'s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 136. 1850; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 103. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 878(617). 1923; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 173. 1982; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 291. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 448. 1990; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 434. 1997; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 544. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- Canscora pauciflora Dalz. in Hook.'s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 136. 1850; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 103. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 878(617). 1923; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 173. 1982; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 291. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 448. 1990; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 434. 1997; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 544. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Gentianales |
| Family | Gentianaceae |
| Genus | Canscora |
| Species | Canscora diffusa (Vahl) R. Br. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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