Flowering class: Monocot
Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Arum viviparum Roxb. |
| synonym | Caladium viviparum (Roxb.) Nees |
| synonym | Colocasia vivipara (Roxb.) Thwaites |
| synonym | Remusatia formosana Hayata |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Epiphytic or lithophytic herbs with erect bulbiferous slender shoots. Leaves 20-30 cm across, ovate, apex acute, base cordate, glossy above; nerves prominent; petiole to 40 cm long. Inflorescence solitary, on erect, terminal peduncle, covered with large cataphylls; spathes obovate to rhomboid, spreading, yellowish white; tube short, 5 cm long, ellipsoid, limb to 10 x 7 cm, acute; spadix 5 cm long. Female flowers many, ovary globose, 1-celled; ovules many, parietal, stigma 3-lobed, globose. Male flowers many, on clavate above part of the spadix; stamens 6, united.
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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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Moist deciduous and semi-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
Global Distribution
Paleotropics
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Wayanad, Kottayam, Idukki, Kasaragode, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, 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 |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Traditional chinese medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1789
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1789 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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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=1789
- Arum viviparum Roxb., Hort. Bengal 65. 1814.
- Remusatia vivipara (Roxb.) Schott in Schott & Endl., Melet. Bot. 18.1832; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6:521.1893; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1583(1104). 1931; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 433. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 405. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 334. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 495. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 419. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 535. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 499. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 410. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 26. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 487. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 359. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 759. 1997; Muktesh, Epiphytic Fl. Western Ghats 129. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 476. 1998; Sivad. in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 246. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 368. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 761. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 527. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 909. 2009.
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=1789
- Arum viviparum Roxb., Hort. Bengal 65. 1814.
- Remusatia vivipara (Roxb.) Schott in Schott & Endl., Melet. Bot. 18.1832; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6:521.1893; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1583(1104). 1931; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 433. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 405. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 334. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 495. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 419. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 535. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 499. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 410. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 26. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 487. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 359. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 759. 1997; Muktesh, Epiphytic Fl. Western Ghats 129. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 476. 1998; Sivad. in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 246. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 368. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 761. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 527. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 909. 2009.
Floristic diversity of the Indian Cardamom Research Institute campus, Myladumpara, Western Ghats, India
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Alismatales |
| Family | Araceae |
| Genus | Remusatia |
| Species | Remusatia vivipara (Roxb.) Schott |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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