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Magnoliopsida
Phytolacca icosandra L.
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United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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"Kerala: Idukki Tamil Nadu: Dindigul, Nilgiri"
Phytolacca octandra is a species with nearly worldwide distribution. It is closely similar to, and perhaps not specifically distinct from, P. icosandra (J. I. Davis 1985).
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Global Distribution
Native of Tropical America, widely spread in many Tropical countries
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Idukki
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introduced; Ariz., Calif., Md.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America.
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Ariz, Wis.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America; Asia; Africa; Pacific Islands.
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Plants to 3 m. Leaves: petiole 0.5-6 cm; blade elliptic to obovate or rarely lanceolate, to 30 × 15 cm, base obtuse to attenuate, apex acute. Inflorescences spikes or spikelike, surpassing subtending leaves, to 30 cm; peduncle to 10 cm; pedicel 0.5-2 mm. Flowers: sepals 5, white or pink to pale reddish, broadly elliptic, equal, to 3 × 2 mm; stamens (8-)10-22(-30), usually in 2 whorls; carpels mostly 6-10, connate; ovary 6-10-loculed. Berries purple-black, 7-8 mm diam. Seeds black, thickly lenticular, 2.5-3 mm, shiny.
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Plants to 2 m. Leaves: petiole 0.5-3 cm; blade lanceolate to elliptic, to 22 × 7.5 cm, base obtuse to attenuate, apex acute to acute-acuminate, sometimes mucronate. Inflorescences axil-lary or terminal spikes or spikelike, equaling or shorter than subtending leaves, to 14 cm; peduncle to 3 cm; pedicel absent or to 2 mm. Flowers: sepals 5, white to pinkish or reddish, oblong to ovate, subequal, 2-3 × 1.2-2 mm; stamens (7-)8-10, in 1 whorl; carpels 7-10, connate; ovary 7-10-loculed. Berries greenish, 4.5-6 mm diam. Seeds black, lenticular, 2 mm, shiny.
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Disturbed areas, chrome ore piles; 10-1800m.
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