Thottea siliquosa Synonyms: Apama siliquosa, A. dubia Family: Aristolochiaceae Name of Thottea in different languages:- Sanskrit: Kodassari. Hindi: Chakrani Malayalam: Alpam-അൽപ്പം, Kodasary-കൊടസ്സാരി, Thapasa muringa-താപസിമുരിങ്ങ, Karalvegam-കരൾവേഗം Tamil: Kuttivayana Plant description of Thottea: It is a small shrub, found in evergreen forests of Western Ghats areas of Kerala, erect or rarely scandent slender shrub or under shrub, 0.5-1.5 m high; branchlets swollen at nodes, finely pubescent; bark smooth, yellowish. Leaves simple, distichous, 10-18 x 3.5-6 cm, oblong-lanceolate, entire, glabrous above, stellately pubescent and paler beneath, strongly 3- nerved from the base with reticulate veins between the nerves, subacute at the base, acutely acuminate at the apex. Petioles 0.2-0.5cm long, stout. Flowers dark purple in axillary, irregular, few-flowered cymes. Bracts small, linear, acute, pubescent. Pedicels 1-2.5 cm long, de...
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