{"id":1418363,"date":"2015-09-16T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T09:34:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:55:59","slug":"orophea-sivarajanii","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/orophea-sivarajanii\/","title":{"rendered":"Orophea sivarajanii"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Orophea<\/i> sivarajanii<\/i> Sasidh., Nordic J. Bot. 19: 301 1999<\/em>. ;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Shrubs, 2-3 m tall, young shoots glabrous. Lamina oblong or elliptic-oblong, acuminate at apex, obtuse or rounded at base, glabrous, 7-15 x 3-6 cm, lateral nerves 7-11 pairs, prominent below and faint above, intercostae widely reticulate, prominulous below and inconspicuous above; petiole 2-3 mm long, glabrous. Flowers in 2 or 3 flowered 1.5-2 cm long glabrous racemes or solitary, axillary or lateral. Pedicels 8-12 mm long, glabrous; bract 0.5 mm long, ovate-acute, towards the upper half of the pedicel. Sepals 2 x 2.5 mm, jointed at base, ovate-deltoid, acute, ciliolate along the margins, otherwise glabrous. Outer petals 4 mm across, ovate-orbicular, tomentose along the margins. Inner petals 7 mm long (with claw), greenish towards the upper half and white in the lower half, tomentose along the margins; nectaries 2, distinct, horizontal with thick undulating margins and shortly hooked downwards apex. Stamens 12 in 2 rows of 6 each. Carpels 6, glabrous; ovules 2, style hairy. Fruitlets globose (young). <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Flowering and fruiting: November<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi<\/span><\/div>\n
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Navendu ji & his team- Two rare tree species discovered<\/a> : 8 posts by 8 authors.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Orophea malabarica<\/em> and Orophea sivarajanii<\/em>, which are related to the custard apple family, were discovered in Makutta Ghat of Kodagu district.<\/div>\n
Pl. see Hindu article<\/a>
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Congrats, Navendu ji & his team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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<\/font>The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>\u00a0(Unresolved)
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IPNI<\/a> \u00a0A new species of Orophea (Annonaceae) from Western Ghats, India<\/a>\u00a0(N. Sasidharan- Nordic Journal of Botany\u00a006\/2008; 19(3):301 – 304.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orophea sivarajanii Sasidh., Nordic J. Bot. 19: 301 1999. ; Shrubs, 2-3 m tall, young shoots glabrous. Lamina oblong or elliptic-oblong, acuminate at apex, obtuse or rounded at base, glabrous, 7-15 x 3-6 cm, lateral nerves 7-11 pairs, prominent below and faint above, intercostae widely reticulate, prominulous below and inconspicuous…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[9274],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1418363","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-orophea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1418363","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=1418363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1418363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1418363"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1418363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}