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Toddalia asiatica gracilis Gamble

Synonym: Toddalia asiatica (L.) Lam.
Toddalia asiatica gracilis Gamble
Toddalia asiatica gracilis Gamble
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🗒 Synonyms
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🗒 Common Names
English
  • Forest Pepper
  • Lopez Root Tree
Hindi
  • Jungli Kali Mirchi
Other
  • Maaseegai
Tamil
  • Kindumullu
📚 Overview
Overview
Summary
Diagnostic Keys
Description
Habit: Shrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
AttributionsG. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
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G Renu
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    📚 Natural History
    Morphology
    Field Tips

    Leaves gland dotted. Crushed leaves have an acidic odour.

    Flower

    In terminal or axillary panicles, cream. Flowering throughout the year with a peak from July-October.

    Fruit

    A berry, globose, compressed green to orange to red. Seeds 2-3, sub reniform. Fruiting peaks from December-January.

    Leaf Apices

    Obtuse

    Leaf arrangement

    Alternate distichous

    Leaf Bases

    Cuneate

    Leaf Margins

    Entire

    Leaf Shapes

    Elliptic

    Leaf Types

    Palmately trifoliate

    Habit

    An armed straggler.

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      Miscellaneous Details
      Notes: Evergreen and Shola forest
      G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
      AttributionsG. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
      Contributors
      StatusUNDER_CREATION
      LicensesCC_BY
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        📚 Habitat and Distribution
        General Habitat
        Common, especially on denuded slopes in full sun.  Foothills, scrub jungles upto 1200m.
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          Description
          Maharashtra: Pune, Satara
          G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
          AttributionsG. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
          Contributors
          StatusUNDER_CREATION
          LicensesCC_BY
          References
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            📚 Occurrence
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            📚 Uses and Management
            Uses
            The leaves are used in curing skin diseases.
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              📚 Information Listing
              References
              1. Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
              Information Listing > References
              1. Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
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              📚 Meta data
              🐾 Taxonomy
              📊 Temporal Distribution
              📷 Related Observations
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