{"id":1425104,"date":"2013-09-27T06:04:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T06:04:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:06:10","slug":"vaccinium-leschenaultii","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/vaccinium-leschenaultii\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccinium leschenaultii"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vaccinium<\/em> leschenaultii<\/i> Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 4: t. 1188 1848<\/em>.; <\/span><\/div>\n
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Vernacular names : Tamil:<\/strong>\u00a0Anduvan, Kalavu Malayalam:<\/strong>\u00a0Katavu, Kalavu, Kelamaram Kannada:<\/strong>\u00a0Anduvan<\/span><\/div>\n
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Habit- <\/font>Small trees up to 7 m tall.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n

Trunk\\bark- <\/font>Bark brownish, irregularly scaly; blaze yellowish.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
Branchlets- <\/font>Young branchlets angular to subterete, pubescent.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
Leaves- <\/font>Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent when young; lamina 4.5-6.5 x 2.5-3 cm, ovate, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, sometimes suborbicular, apex acute or acuminate, base attenuate to acute or obtuse, margin serrate, glabrous, coriaceous, glands on the midrib beneath; midrib slightly raised or flat above; secondary nerves 4-6 pairs; tertiary nerves broadly reticulate, not prominent.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
Flowers- <\/font>Inflorescence axillary and terminal, racemose; flowers urceolate, pink or rarely whitish; petals glabrous; stamens with awns; pedicel ca. 0.3 cm long.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
Fruit& seed- <\/font>Berry, smooth, globose; seeds many.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
In high elevation evergreen forests between 1600 and 2000 m.<\/font> <\/span><\/div>\n
India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka; in the Western Ghats- South Sahyadri.<\/font> <\/span><\/div>\n
(From India Biodiversity Portal<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Attributions- B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry<\/font><\/a>\u00a0)<\/div>\n

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Vaccinium leschenaultii Wight ::: Vacciniaceae<\/a> : <\/span>Attachments<\/span> <\/span>(6). 3 posts by 2 authors.<\/span><\/div>\n
Name:\u00a0Vaccinium leschenaultii<\/i> Wight\u00a0<\/p>\n
Family: Vacciniaceae<\/em><\/div>\n
Date: 06 July 2013<\/font><\/div>\n
Place: Doddabetta, Nilgiris, TN<\/font><\/div>\n
Alt.: 2500 m asl<\/font><\/div>\n
Is my ID right? I do not know which variety it is<\/p>\n
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Vaccinium<\/em><\/font><\/a>\u00a0species so far in efi.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Yes it is Vaccinium leschenaultii<\/i> Wight\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Viburnum erubescens Wall SN Mar 12 Solenotinus erubescens (Wall.) Oerst.<\/a> :\u00a0<\/span>4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments<\/span> (2<\/span>).<\/span> <\/div>\n
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I think this is Vaccinium leschenaultii<\/p>\n

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<\/em>Yes, I agree with …, It is Vaccinium leschenaultii<\/em> Wt. only<\/p>\n

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India Biodiversity Portal<\/a> Biotik<\/a>\u00a0(Vaccinium<\/em> leschenaultii<\/i> Wight)<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/span>\u00a0IIIM (Specimen)<\/a>\u00a0 plant illustrations<\/a>\u00a0<\/span> <\/span>Biotik<\/a>\u00a0(Vaccinium<\/em> leschenaultii<\/i> Wight)<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font> The Plant List<\/a>\u00a0(Unresolved)\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Vaccinium leschenaultii Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 4: t. 1188 1848.; \u00a0 Vernacular names : Tamil:\u00a0Anduvan, Kalavu Malayalam:\u00a0Katavu, Kalavu, Kelamaram Kannada:\u00a0Anduvan \u00a0 Habit- Small trees up to 7 m tall. Trunk\\bark- Bark brownish, irregularly scaly; blaze yellowish. Branchlets- Young branchlets angular to subterete, pubescent. Leaves- Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5768],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1425104","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-vaccinium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1425104","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=1425104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1425104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1425104"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1425104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}