{"id":1316368,"date":"2018-03-22T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T11:18:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T06:36:24","slug":"myristica-malabarica","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/myristica-malabarica\/","title":{"rendered":"Myristica malabarica"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vulnerable<\/b><\/font> as per IUCN Red List (VU)<\/font><\/a> <\/font><\/div>\n

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Myristica malabarica <\/i>Lam., M\u00e9m. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 1788: 162 1791<\/i>. (syn: Myristica dactyloides<\/i> Wall.; Myristica notha<\/i> Wall.;\u00a0Myristica tomentosa<\/i> J. Grah.); <\/div>\n
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Peninsular India<\/font> <\/font><\/font>(Karnataka, Kerala
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Common name:<\/b> Malabar Nutmeg \u2022 Hindi<\/b><\/span>: \u092c\u092e\u094d\u092c\u0947 \u091c\u093e\u092f\u092b\u0932 Bambay-jayphal, \u0935\u0928 \u091c\u093e\u092f\u092b\u0932 Van-jayphal \u2022 Kannada<\/b><\/span>: Kanage, Doddajajikai \u2022 Malayalam<\/b><\/span>: Kattujathi, Kattujathikka, Kottappannu, Panampalka, Pathiripoovu, Ponnampannu, Ponnampayin, Ponnampu \u2022 Marathi<\/b><\/span>: \u0930\u093e\u092e\u092a\u0924\u094d\u0930\u0940 Raampatri \u2022 Sanskrit<\/b><\/span>: asana, bandhukapushpa, gostani, jatiphala \u2022 Tamil<\/b><\/span>: colaivenkai, katjathika, kattu jatikkai \u2022 Telugu<\/b><\/span>: adavijajikaaya, adavijajikaya, adividzajikaya<\/div>\n
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Dioecious trees, height 15 m, girth 45 cm; bark 8-10 mm thick, greenish-black, smooth, tuberculate-lenticellate, semi fibrous, blaze reddish, exudation deep red; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, estipulate; petiole 10-15 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous, lamina 7-20 x 3-10 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base acute or attenuate, apex acute, or subacute, margin entire, glabrous and glossy above and glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-14 pairs, pinnate, slender, obscure, inter costae obscure. Flowers unisexual, white; male in cymes, axillary or from the old axils below the leaves, generally cymosely branched, rarely simple. Male flowers: more numerous than in female and smaller, umbelled at the apex of branchlets; perianth urceolate, minutely puberulous outside, glabrous inside, 3-4 cleft at apex; staminal column stalked, slightly produces above the anthers, pubescent; anthers 10-15, linear; female flowers: slightly larger than male peduncle generally simple with 3 umbelled pedicels at the apex, rarely once branched and bearing 5-6 flowers; bracteole forming a narrow linear cup round the base of the perianth; ovary superior, sessile, globose, hairy, stigma 2 clefted, glabrous. Fruit a capsule 5-7.5 x 1.8-3.5, oblong, pubescent, seed one, oblong, obtuse, slightly flattened on one side, aril yellow, irregularly lobed, laciniate, extending to the apex of the seed. <\/font><\/div>\n

Flowering and fruiting: January-September<\/font><\/div>\n
Evergreen and swamp forests<\/font><\/div>\n
Western Ghats (endemic)<\/font><\/div>\n
(attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal<\/font><\/a>)<\/div>\n
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Myristica malabarica Lam.<\/a> : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments<\/span> (4)<\/font><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n

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As discussed, I am herewith attaching the photos of Myristica malabarica<\/i> Lam.<\/div>\n
Habit: Tree.<\/font><\/div>\n
Location: Sirumalai Hills, Dindigul Dist., Tamil Nadu.<\/font><\/div>\n
Alt.: ca 1300 m asl.<\/font><\/div>\n
DoP: 08-08-2014.<\/div>\n
During the visit, I have asked a tribal woman (Paliyar), collecting the fruits, for the uses. She told that we call this as “kalipaakku” and we collect the fruits for getting yellow-orange coloured ‘aril’ used for making yellow-orange dye. They just collect aril and sell through an agent.<\/font><\/div>\n

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The pictures are beautifully recorded, thanks … for enriching the database..\u00a0<\/div>\n

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<\/font>Conspectus on Indian Gymnacranthera and Myristica<\/font><\/a> D. Banik, P.P. Bora, V. Sampath Kumar and R.L. Bezbaruah- Rheedea Vol. 27(1) 1\u201312 2017 <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n

Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>IPNI<\/a>
\n\u00a0<\/span>Flowers of India<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Biotik<\/a>\u00a0 Wikipedia<\/a> \u00a0<\/span>IUCN Red List (VU)<\/a>\u00a0 Useful Tropical Plants<\/a>\u00a0 FRLHT<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vulnerable as per IUCN Red List (VU) Myristica malabarica Lam., M\u00e9m. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 1788: 162 1791. (syn: Myristica dactyloides Wall.; Myristica notha Wall.;\u00a0Myristica tomentosa J. Grah.); Peninsular India (Karnataka, Kerala Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu). Endemic. as per Conspectus on Indian Gymnacranthera and Myristica D. Banik, P.P. Bora, V. Sampath…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[7092],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1316368","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-myristica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1316368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1316368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1316368"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1316368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}