Understorey trees in medium and high elevation evergreen forests, between 1200 and 1600 m.
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📚 Overview
Summary
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Large shrubs or small trees; branchlets glabrous. Leaves opposite, 3-7.5 x 3-4 cm, oblong or ovate-oblong, entire or slightly revolute at margins, rounded or slightly cordate at base, acute-obtuse at apex, lateral nerves 5-paired, inconspicuous; sessile or shortly petioled. Flowers fascicled in single or very short-peduncled cymes on lateral tubercles, or rarely axillary, bluish-red, c. 2.5 cm across; pedicels 3-4 mm long. Calyx campanulate, 2-2.5 mm long, shortly 4 or 5-toothed; teeth acute, c. 1 mm long. Petals 4, ovate, bluish-red, 1-1.5 x 1-1.5 mm. Stamens 8, equal; filaments c. 1 mm long, broad at base; anthers short. Ovary 1-celled; ovules 8; style linear, c. 2 mm long. Fruit a globose or ellipsoid berry, 1-seeded.
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: Large shrub or small tree
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 |
Leaf upper and lower side
Inflorescence insertion
Petiole and leaf insertion
Habit
Trees ca. 7 m tall.
Branches and Branchlets
Branchlets subterete, glabrous.
Leaves
Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.2 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 6.5-10.7 x 2.9-4.6 cm, oblong-ovate, apex obtuse, base rounded, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib canaliculate; secondary nerves faintly visible at least when dry; tertiary nerves obscure.
Inflorescence / Flower
Flowers blue, fascicled, singly or in very short pedunculate cymes, generally on lateral tubercles.
Fruit and Seed
Berry; seeds 1.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Ecology
Understorey trees in medium and high elevation evergreen forests, between 1200 and 1600 m.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Evergreen Forests, Endemic to Southern 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
Habitat
Terrestrial
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
Kerala: Kozhikode, Palakkad
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Nilgiri
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 to the Western Ghats- Anamalai, south Nilgiris.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Global Distribution
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Kozhikkode, Palakkad, Wayanad
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
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
Conservation Status
IUCN Red List Category
Critically Endangered
Geoprivacy
Yes
Critically Endangered
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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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983
- Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1919; Gamble, Fl. Madras 1: 505.1997 (re. ed); Sasidharan, Biodiversity documentation for Kerala- Flowering Plants, part 6: 182. 2004.
- Memecylon sisparense Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1919: 227. 1919 & Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 505(356). 1919; Biju in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 159. 1999; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 63. 2000; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 370. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983
- Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1919; Gamble, Fl. Madras 1: 505.1997 (re. ed); Sasidharan, Biodiversity documentation for Kerala- Flowering Plants, part 6: 182. 2004.
- Memecylon sisparense Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1919: 227. 1919 & Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 505(356). 1919; Biju in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 159. 1999; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 63. 2000; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 370. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Myrtales |
| Family | Melastomataceae |
| Genus | Memecylon |
| Species | Memecylon sisparense Gamble |
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