Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Shrub
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Cadaba triphylla Wight |
| synonym | Crateva tapia Heyne ex Wall. |
| synonym | Desmocarpus missionis Wall. |
| synonym | Stroemia trifoliata Roxb. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Branched shrubs, erect or scandent, 2-3 m high; stem white-tubercled; young parts scabrous. Leaves alternate, mostly 3-foliolate; petioles 1-4 cm long, shorter than leaflets; leaflets elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, ovate-elliptic or obovate, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, 4-10 x 1.5-5 cm, distinctly reticulately nerved; petiolules 1.5-3 mm long. Racemes corymbose, 4-10 flowered. Sepals 4; outer 2 ovate, 2-2.5 x 0.8-1 cm; inner 2 ellliptic, ca 15 x 5 mm. Petals 2, suborbicular, 3.5-5 x 2.5-3 cm, white or cream coloured, claw as long as limb. Disc appendage spatulate, toothed at apex, ca 15 mm long, shorter than claw, yellow. Androphore absent. Stamens 6 or 7, inserted in tnr middle of gynophore, reflexed; filaments to 2.5 cm long. Gynophore 4-5 cm long. Ovary linear, 7-8 x ca 1 mm. Fruits terete, 8-10 cm x 6-8 mm, black; seeds many, reniform, ca 3.5 x 3 mm, black.
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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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, 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 |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Sacred groves
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Description
Global Distribution
Peninsular India
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Thiruvananthapuram
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Kerala: Thiruvananthapuram
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Dharmapuri, Kanniyakumari, Madurai, Namakkal, Puddukkottai, Salem, Theni, Tirunelveli, Viluppuram, Virudhunagar
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 Distribution
Peninsular India
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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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=380
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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📚 Information Listing
References
- 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=380
- Cadaba trifoliata (Roxb.) Wight & Arn., Prodr. 1:24. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 171. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 42(31). 1915; Sundararagh. in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 251. 1993; Kumar et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 26: 142. 2002; R. Sundara. & N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 223. 2005.
- Stroemia trifoliata Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 79. 1824, 'Stroemeria'
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983; Matthew, 1983, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004
Information Listing > References
- 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=380
- Cadaba trifoliata (Roxb.) Wight & Arn., Prodr. 1:24. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 171. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 42(31). 1915; Sundararagh. in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 251. 1993; Kumar et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 26: 142. 2002; R. Sundara. & N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 223. 2005.
- Stroemia trifoliata Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 79. 1824, 'Stroemeria'
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983; Matthew, 1983, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Capparales |
| Family | Capparaceae |
| Genus | Cadaba |
| Species | Cadaba trifoliata (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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