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Published In: Burmah, its People and Natural Productions ed. 3, 2: 657. 1860. (Burmah) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit : Fl.Per.: February-March.
Type : Type: “Indes Orientales,” Plukenet’s drawing; specimen in Herb. Sloane (BM).
Distribution : Distribution: India, Pakistan, and tropical Africa.
Comment/Acknowledgements : A climber with tomentose branchlets; not very common. The juice of the ripe fruit yields a permanent bluish-purple ink and the roots as well as the leaves are used in native medicine and as a tonic like the last species.
Photo : Cocculus hirsutus (L.) W. Theob. (Photo)
Map Location : G-4 Sind: Karachi Dist.: Jamgoat, Sadia Qureshi et al 2 (KUH); Malir Garden, Karachi, 14-12-66, Khadija Aziz s.n. (KUH); id., 14-12-66, Abrar Hussain s.n. (KUH).

 

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Climbing undershrubs, often densely pubescent-tomentose. Leaves 4-8 (-9) cm long, (2.5-6)-7 cm broad, ovate or ovate-oblong, sometimes 3-5-lobed, base subcordate, cordate, cuneate or truncate, apex obtuse or mucronate, densely tomentose when young, later subglabrous; basal nerves 3-5; petiole 0.5-2.5 cm long. Male flowers: sepals hairy, the outer 3, oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm broad, the inner 3 broadly ovate, 1.5-2.5 mm long, 1.7-2 mm broad; petals ovate-oblong, 0.5-1.5 mm long, 0.3-6 mm broad; sparsely pubescent to glabrous; stamens 0.7-1 mm long. Female flowers 1-3, on axillary pedicels, rarely racemed; bracts minute, linear; carpels 0.7-1 mm long. Drupe dark purple, 4-8 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, endocarp annular or ribbed with a prominent dorsal crest, perforated. 2n=38.
 
 
 
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