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Botanical Name: Celastrus paniculatus
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Family: Celastraceae
Common Name: ज्योतिष्मती, मालकांगणी
Etymology - Genus: From the ancient Greek kelastros, the name of another tree.
Etymology - Species: Referring to the flower clusters (panicles)
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: Pune City
Description: Grown into a huge spreading liana. Young branches have white spots, those are the lenticels.Simple leaf.Soft petiolate leaf with slightly serrate margin.Classic panicle inflorescence, at the end of the branches. Inflorescence can extend up to couple of feet long.Very small yellowish green flowers. Separate Male & Female flowers.Oblong green fruit, turns red when ripe. Generally 3 celled.1-6 seeds enclosed in orange aril.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Liana
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture:
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Grown into a huge spreading liana. Young branches have white spots, those are the lenticels.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Simple
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Simple leaf.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Elliptic
Lamina Bases: Cuneate
Lamina Margins: Serrate
Lamina Apices: Acuminate
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Soft petiolate leaf with slightly serrate margin.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Panicle
Bract: Ebracteate
Inflorescence Description: Classic panicle inflorescence, at the end of the branches. Inflorescence can extend up to couple of feet long.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Incomplete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Valvate
Flower Description: Very small yellowish green flowers. Separate Male & Female flowers.
Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement:
Calyx Persistance:
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement:
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
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Androecium Union of Stamens:
Androecium Number of Stamens: 5
Gynoecium Placentation:
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Fruit type: Capsule
Fruit type Description: Oblong green fruit, turns red when ripe. Generally 3 celled.
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Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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Seed Description: 1-6 seeds enclosed in orange aril.
