Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Climber
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Periploca emetica Retz. |
🗒 Common Names
| Irula |
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit: Climbing 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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Scandent subshrubs. Leaves 4-5.5 x 1.5 cm, linear-elliptic, apex acute, base decurrent, margins recurved, pubescent beneath, lateral nerves indistinct, subsessile. Cymes axillary, trichotomously branched; peduncles 0.5 cm; calyx lobes 0.5 mm, ovate, ciliate; corolla lobes twisted either to the left or right, 2 x 1 mm, oblong, ovate or acute at apex; corona staminal, of 5 scales; ovary 0.7 mm. Follicles paired, 7.5 x 0.8 cm, blunt at base and tapering at apex.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Habit: A much branched, wiry climbing shrub, to 8m.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Flower
In axillary 3-chotomous cymes; greenish-yellow. Flowering from July-October.
Fruit
A cylindric, paired follicle; seeds many, oblong, with sliky white coma. Fruiting November onwards.
Field tips
Bark brown, thick, corky and deeply cleft. Latex white.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Linear-lanceolate
Leaf Apex
Acutely apiculate
Leaf Base
Attenuate-cuneate
Leaf Margin
Entire
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Scrub jungles & Dry deciduous forests, Plains to Low Altitude, Dry Localities
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
Scrub jungles and dry deciduous forests
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Common, foothills to 1000m. Peninsular India.
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Description
Global Distribution
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Hassan, Mysore
Kerala: Idukki, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram
Tamil Nadu: All districts
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 | |
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Scarce in the scrub jungles, and deciduous forests from foothills to 1000m. Peninsular India and Sri Lanka.
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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The root and leaves are used in medicinal preparations.
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Periploca emetica Retz., Obs. Bot. 2: 14. 1781.
- Secamone emetica (Retz.) R. Br. ex Schult. in Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 6: 124. 1820; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 13. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 829(583). 1923; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 198. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 197. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 453. 2002.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Periploca emetica Retz., Obs. Bot. 2: 14. 1781.
- Secamone emetica (Retz.) R. Br. ex Schult. in Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 6: 124. 1820; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 13. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 829(583). 1923; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 198. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 197. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 453. 2002.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Gentianales |
| Family | Apocynaceae |
| Genus | Secamone |
| Species | Secamone emetica (Retz.) Schult. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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