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Sarcostemma intermedium Decne.

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Sarcostemma intermedium Decne.
Sarcostemma intermedium Decne.
Sarcostemma intermedium Decne.
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🗒 Synonyms
synonymSarcostemma viminale Wight & Arn.
🗒 Common Names
Hindi
  • Phok
Irula
  • Indu
  • Sundrikkodi
Other
  • Mosurguduka
  • Pasandi Kodi
Tamil
  • Kodikalli
📚 Overview
Overview
Summary
Brief
Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Climber
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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D. Narasimhan
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    Diagnostic Keys
    Description
    Habit: A leafless straggling shrub, to 5m.
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      Leafless stragglers; branches succulent, terete, jointed; latex milky. Umbels terminal, 5 - 15 flowered; flowers creamy; pedicels 0.7-1.2 cm, creamy, puberulous. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes ovate-lanceolate, ca 2 mm. Corolla 1.4-1.8 cm across, 5-lobed; lobes ca 6 x 3 mm, oblong, obtusely acute at apex. Outer corona 10-lobed, wavy, ca 2 mm; inner ca 2 mm. Pollinia 5. Stigma acuminate at apex. Fruit smooth 7-10 cm long; seeds oblong, ca 5 x 2 mm, winged; coma silky.
      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 
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        No Data
        📚 Natural History
        Cyclicity
        Flowering and fruiting: August-December
        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
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          Morphology
          Field Tips

          Milky latex present. A tangled mass of leafless green terete branches.

          Flower

          In terminal umbels, cream. Flowering peaks from July-September.

          Fruit

          A follicle, smooth, oblong. Seeds oblong, flat, winged and silky. Fruiting rare.

          Habit

          A succulent straggler with trailing leafless jointed stem.

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            Flower

            In terminal umbels, 8-10-flowered; cream. Flowering from July-September.

            Fruit

            A paired follicle, linear, cylindric, tapering towards the apex; seeds many, margined. Fruiting March onwards.

            Field tips

            Branchlets terete, green. Latex milky.

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              Associations

              Pollinators

              Bees
              Bees
              No Data
              📚 Habitat and Distribution
              General Habitat
              Common in plains to 900m, in scrub jungles, in thickets and rocky landscapes. Peninsular India.
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                Deciduous 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
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                  Description
                  Common along the forest borders and exposed slopes of deciduous forests above 300m. Peninsular India .
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                    Global Distribution

                    Peninsular India

                    Indian distribution

                    State - Kerala, District/s: 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
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                      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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                        No Data
                        📚 Occurrence
                        No Data
                        📚 Uses and Management
                        Uses

                        System of Medicines Used In

                        Siddha
                        Siddha
                        Cattle graze on the plant. The plant is used in preparing veterinary medicine.
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                          The stem is sour in taste and is edible.
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                            System Of Medicines Used In

                            Siddha

                            FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4752
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                              Folklore
                              Indigenous Information: The stem used in the preparations of veterinery medicines.
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                                📚 Information Listing
                                References
                                1. Sarcostemma intermedium Decne. in DC., Prodr. 8: 538. 1844; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 27. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 838(589). 1923; Salim, Sujanapal and Kumar, J. Econ. Tax. Bot. 35: 192. 2011.
                                1. 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=4752
                                Information Listing > References
                                1. Sarcostemma intermedium Decne. in DC., Prodr. 8: 538. 1844; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 27. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 838(589). 1923; Salim, Sujanapal and Kumar, J. Econ. Tax. Bot. 35: 192. 2011.
                                2. 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=4752

                                Vascular plant assemblage of cliffs in northern Western Ghats, India

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                                📚 Meta data
                                No Data
                                🐾 Taxonomy
                                RootRoot
                                KingdomPlantae
                                PhylumTracheophyta
                                ClassMagnoliopsida
                                OrderGentianales
                                FamilyApocynaceae
                                GenusSarcostemma
                                SpeciesSarcostemma intermedium Decne.
                                📊 Temporal Distribution
                                📷 Related Observations
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