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Botanical Name: Mitragyna parvifolia
Photo Credit: Milind Girdhari Record Count: 9 Photo Date-Time: None
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Family: Rubiaceae
Common Name: कळम
Etymology - Genus: From the Greek mitra (shape of a turban worn by bishops) and gyne (ovary).
Etymology - Species: Small leaves
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: India, Empress Garden
Description: Tall, huge tree with whitish, rough, uneven bark and good size girth. Simple leaf, Opposite-Decussate. Small leaves grow out of a bud formed by the stipule, bud falls off leaving behind a characteristic interpetiolar ring.Glabrous ovate leaf.Tightly packed flowers, size of a marble are bourn all over a tree during a bloom. Flower cluster is on a long peduncle.Flowers are yellowish white with pleasant fragrance.Shape of a stigma is like a turban worn by bishops.Dark, hard fruiting heads appear after flowering. Fruits are aggregation of capsules. Fruits are not edible.
Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 5 Photo Date-Time: 23-Aug-2022 10:19 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 5 Photo Date-Time: 12-Mar-2023 09:00 AM
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Tree
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Rough, uneven
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Tall, huge tree with whitish, rough, uneven bark and good size girth.
Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 2 Photo Date-Time: 01-Jul-2024 08:31 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 14-Jul-2019 12:19 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 5 Photo Date-Time: 23-Aug-2022 10:20 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 7 Photo Date-Time: 06-Jul-2024 09:37 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 14-Jul-2019 12:19 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 4 Photo Date-Time: 07-Dec-2021 10:50 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 5 Photo Date-Time: 23-Aug-2022 10:21 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 7 Photo Date-Time: 06-Jul-2024 09:37 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 7 Photo Date-Time: 06-Jul-2024 09:37 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 2 Photo Date-Time: 01-Jul-2024 08:31 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 2 Photo Date-Time: 01-Jul-2024 08:32 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 2 Photo Date-Time: 01-Jul-2024 08:32 AM
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Interpetiolar
Leaf Type: Simple
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Simple leaf, Opposite-Decussate. Small leaves grow out of a bud formed by the stipule, bud falls off leaving behind a characteristic interpetiolar ring.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Ovate
Lamina Bases: Round
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Acute
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Glabrous ovate leaf.
Photo Credit: Milind Girdhari Record Count: 9 Photo Date-Time: None
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Photo Credit: Milind Girdhari Record Count: 9 Photo Date-Time: None
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Capitate
Bract: Ebracteate
Inflorescence Description: Tightly packed flowers, size of a marble are bourn all over a tree during a bloom. Flower cluster is on a long peduncle.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Epigynous
Aestivation: Valvate
Flower Description: Flowers are yellowish white with pleasant fragrance.
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Actinomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance: Caducous
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement: Cone shaped
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther:
Androecium Length of filament: equal
Androecium Union of Stamens: Epipetalous
Androecium Number of Stamens: 5
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels: Bicarpellary
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 2
Floral Parts Description: Shape of a stigma is like a turban worn by bishops.
Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 5 Photo Date-Time: 23-Aug-2022 10:21 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 4 Photo Date-Time: 07-Dec-2021 10:50 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 5 Photo Date-Time: 12-Mar-2023 09:00 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 4 Photo Date-Time: 07-Dec-2021 10:51 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 5 Photo Date-Time: 23-Aug-2022 10:21 AM
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Fruit type: Aggregate of capsules
Fruit type Description: Dark, hard fruiting heads appear after flowering. Fruits are aggregation of capsules. Fruits are not edible.
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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