Botanical Survey of India | Flora of India

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Tiliacora trianedra (Colebr.) Diels in Engler, Pflanzenr. 46: 62. 1910. Cocculus triandrus Colebr. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 13: 64. 1821. Limacia triandra (Colebr.) Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 188. 1855 & in Fl. Brit. India 1: 100. 1872.


Stems puberulous to glabrous, striate. Leaves elliptic, lanceolate or subovate, cuneate or rounded or often subcordate at base, acute to obtuse or acuminate at apex, 6 - 12 (-17) x 2 - 5 (-8) cm, puberulous or glabrous; basal nerves 3 - 5, subpalmate; lateral nerves 2 - 6 pairs; main nerves tending to link up towards margins; midrib verrucose near base beneath, glabrous; petioles 0.5 - 2 cm long, verrucose at apex. Inflorescences axillary or cauliftorous, on 1 - few-flowered cymes, 2 - 8 (-17) cm long; peduncles ca 5 mm long. Male flowers yellow; inner sepals broadly elliptic, ca 2 mm long, glabrous; petals 3 or 6, cuneate, emarginate, ca 1 mm long; stamens 3, clavate, 1.5 - 2 mm long. Female flowers: inner sepals orbicular, ca 2 mm long, puberulous outside; petals 6, oblong-elliptic, ca 1 mm long; carpels 8 or 9, less than 0.5 mm long. Drupes subcompressed, obovoid, 7 - 10 x 6 - 7 mm, glabrous, red; endocarp transversely irregularly ridged.

Fl. & Fr. not known.

Distrib. India: On rocky and clayey soils or limestone hills, evergreen forests, 200 - 1300 m. Meghalaya.

Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam to Malaya.

Notes. Leafy shoots are used in preparation of medicine for dysentry in Cambodia.




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