Vunerable as per Wikipedia;
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Garcinia travancorica Bedd., Fl. Sylv. S. India t. 173 1872.;
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SW India as per POWO;
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India (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) as per Catalogue of Life;
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Evergreen trees, handsome, about 10-15 m tall with lax crown, wood hard, yellowish brown, brittle when dried, bark dark brown, branchlets opposite, glabrous, quadrangular, latex resinous, thick, yellow in bark, branches and fruits. Leaves simple, opposite or rarely ternate, linear elliptic-oblong, about 8-12 x 1.5-2.7 cm across, base acute, margins revolute, apex obtuse or rounded, chartaceous, coriaceous, dark green glabrous above and paler beneath, midrib impressed above and prominent beneath, lateral veins indefinite, faint, slender, veinlets faintly finely reticulate, petiole slender, stout, about 0.5-2 cm long, exstipulate, rarely stipulate. Inflorescence terminal or subterminal cymes or fascicles. Flowers heterochlamydeous, dioecious, pedicel about 2-3 mm long. Male flowers: terminal, trichotomous, few flowered cymes, white or pale yellow, about 1 cm across, sepals 4, imbricate, orbicular, concave, decussate in pairs, inner pair about 4 mm across, outer pair about 2.5 mm across, petals 4, imbricate, obovate-orbicular, shortly clawed, about 7 mm across, stamens indefinite, inserted around mutifid polyandrous mass, rudimentary pistil present, columnar, connate at the base, filaments short, anthers peltate, 2 loculed, stigma circular, peltate. Female flowers: axillary and terminal, bigger than male flowers, globose, staminodes 5, filaments free, linear, arranged in hypogonous ring shape, ovary superior, subglobose, about 6 x 5 mm across, 3-4 locular, style short, stigma imbricate, about 8 mm across. Fruit fleshy berry, subglobose-oblong, 3-4 cm across, sulcate or smooth, encased by persistent sepals and crowned by stigma. Seeds 1-2, oblong ovoid, brown, covered with juicy pulp.

In evergreen mountain forests, altitude up to 1500 m.
Kerala, Tamil Nadu; Southern Western Ghats.
(Attributions- Ganeshaiah, K. N., UAS, Bangalore, India. Kailash, B. R., ATREE, Bangalore, India. Royal Norwegian Embassy grants. Indian Bioresource Information Network (IBIN), Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi)
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female flowers and fruit of Garcinia travancorica (Mixed thread): 2 correct images.
These are female flowers and fruit of Garcinia travancorica. Pl post in the site.



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References:
POWO  Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver.1.1  IPNI  GBIF (High resolution specimens) Flora of peninsular India India Biodiversity Portal  Biotik  Kerala plants  Wikipedia  Useful Tropical Plants

Diversity of Garcinia species in the Western Ghats (pdf): JNTBGRI- Diversity of Garcinia species in the Western Ghats: Phytochemical Perspective- P. S. Shameer, K. B. Rameshkumar and N. Mohanan

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