MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MC068 : Combretum decandrum Jacq. |
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| Plant Category : | Climbers | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | COMBRETACEAE | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | White Combretum • Bengali: Alang, Alena • Hindi: Paibal, Punk | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Combretum alternifolium Pers. Combretum latipaniculatum Rusby Combretum nicoyanum Pittier Combretum palmeri Rose Combretum punctulatum Pittier Gonocarpus jacquinii Ham. Poivrea alternifolia (Pers.) DC. Combretum roxburghii |
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| Description : | a large climber with branchlets reddish hairy when young. Leaves are opposite; leaf-stalk 5-7 mm, leaf blade oblong-elliptic to obovate-oblong, 6-13 x 3-6 cm, both surfaces mostly hairless, base blunt or blunt-rounded, tip blunt, with a tail; lateral veins in 6 or 7 pairs. Flowers are borne at branch-ends and in leaf-axils, in laxly compound spikes 5-15 cm, usually grouped at branchlet tip and forming a lax, leafy panicle. Bracts are persistent at full flowering, lanceshaped, 4-6 mm, woolly. Sepal tube is distally cup-shaped, 3-5 mm, below golden woolly; sepals 5, broadly triangular, about 1 mm, tip aristate. Petals are 5, obovate-oblong, about 2 mm, both surfaces yellow hairy. Stamens are 10, only slightly protruding, about 2 mm, not exceeding petals. Fruit is glossy, cylindric, 5-winged, 2-3 × 0.8-1 cm, hairless, tip tapering. Flowering: October-June. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
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