Category: O

  • Otonephelium stipulaceum (Beddome) Radlk

    Otonephelium stipulaceum (Beddome) Radlk Common nameMalayalam: Paviri mulei. Description: Evergreen trees up to 20 m tall. Leaves alternate, paripinnate, up to 40 cm long; leaflets opposite or alternate, 4-6 pairs, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, up to 15 x 7.5 cm, subacute at both ends, lowest pair of leaflets unequally reniform, stipuliform. Flowers small, polygamous, in axillary…

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  • Olea dioica Roxb

    Olea dioica Roxb. (OLEACEAE) Common namesKannada & Tulu: Bili saroli.Malayalam: Edana.Tamil: Koli, Payar. Description: These evergreen trees stand 12-15 meters tall and feature smooth, grey bark. The leaves are elliptic-lanceolate, measuring 7-15 x 3-6 cm, with an acute base, and an apex ranging from acute to acuminate. They are either entire or crenate, with 8-12…

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  • Ochlandra travancorica Benth. ex Gamble

    Ochlandra travancorica Benth. ex Gamble (GRAMINEAE) Common namesKannada: Vaate bidiru.Malayalam: Etta, Kar-etta, Vai.Tamil: Eral, Era-katti, Nanal, Odai. Description: This bamboo has a shrubby, reed-like appearance. The culms are erect, reaching heights of up to 6 m and diameters of 5 cm, with hollow internodes. Culm sheaths are truncately rounded, measuring up to 20 cm in…

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  • Ochlandra scriptoria (Dennst.) C.

    Ochlandra scriptoria (Dennst.) C. Fischer (GRAMINEAE) Common namesKannada: Vaate bidiru.Malayalam: Ammei, Ottal. Description: Shrubby, reed-like bamboo with extensively branching substerranean root-stock. Culms erect, up to 5 m tall and 2.5 cm in diam. internodes hollow. Culm-sheaths truncate, up to 15 cm long, with 2 falcate, long-ciliate auricles; blade long, ensiform. Leaves linear-lanceolate, up to 25…

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  • Ochna gamblei King ex Brandis

    Ochna gamblei King ex Brandis (OCHNACEAE) Common namesTamil: Koorykaly.Telugu: Kuka-moi. Description: These are sizable shrubs or petite trees with whitish bark. The leaves form tufts at the ends of branchlets, nearly sessile, and vary in shape from ovate, obovate, oblong to broadly elliptic, reaching up to 14 x 7 cm. They are cordate at the…

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  • Ochreinauclea missionis

    Ochreinauclea missionis (Wallich ex G. Don) Ridsd. (RUBIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Anavu.Malayalam & Tamil: Attuvanji, Neer vanji.Sanskrit: Jaladamsha. Description: Trees, up to 20 m tall with smooth brown bark. Leaves opposite, elliptic-lanceolate, 10-18 x 4-7 cm, acute at base, rounded to acute at apex, glabrous, shining above, nerves 10-12 pairs; petioles ca 1.5 cm long; stipules…

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