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Botanical Name: Combretum albidum
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Family: Combretaceae
Common Name: पिळुक
Etymology - Genus: Latin name for a climbing plant of another genus
Etymology - Species: White-ish
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: Pune, Vetal Hill
Description: Large woody liana. Grows vigorously by winding itself against a support or another plant, twiner. Simple leaf, arranged opposite and superposed.Flowers are tightly arranged on a peduncle.Flowers are small creamy, greenish with pleasant smell.Flowers have very small 4 petals.Fruits has 4 distinct wings, brown once dried.Each fruit has a single seed. Seed is never separated from fruit.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Liana
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture:
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Large woody liana. Grows vigorously by winding itself against a support or another plant, twiner.
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 4 Photo Date-Time: 21-Jul-2022 17:01 PM
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Simple
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Simple leaf, arranged opposite and superposed.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Elliptic
Lamina Bases: Obtuse
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Rounded apice
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description:
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Raceme
Bract: Ebracteate
Inflorescence Description: Flowers are tightly arranged on a peduncle.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Incomplete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Valvate
Flower Description: Flowers are small creamy, greenish with pleasant smell.
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 2 Photo Date-Time: 24-Mar-2019 08:07 AM
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Actinomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance: Caducous
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement: 4 free petals
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 4
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther: Dorsifixed
Androecium Length of filament: equal
Androecium Union of Stamens:
Androecium Number of Stamens: 8
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels:
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 1
Floral Parts Description: Flowers have very small 4 petals.
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Fruit type: Drupe
Fruit type Description: Fruits has 4 distinct wings, brown once dried.
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
Dispersion Method: Wind
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Seed Description: Each fruit has a single seed. Seed is never separated from fruit.
