Ormosia travancorica
Ormosia travancorica is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Ormosia |
| Species: | O. travancorica |
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It is endemic to the Western Ghats of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It is reasonably common in the South Sahyadri and rare in the Coorg Region of Central Sahyadri.[1] The canopy trees in wet evergreen forests, which generally extend up to 800 m, sometimes extend up to 1200 m in the southern Ghats.
References
- Fl. Sylv. 45.1870; Gamble, Fl. Madras 1: 390. 1997 (re. ed); Sasidharan, Biodiversity documentation for Kerala- Flowering Plants, part 6: 140. 2004; Saldanha, Fl. Karnataka 1: 480. 1996.
External links
- indiabiodiversity site which is having Creative Commons Licenses
- online Herbarium Specimen-jstor.org
- Online digital book pages list biodiversitylibrary one of the page + its OCR data
Data related to Ormosia travancorica at Wikispecies
Media related to Ormosia travancorica at Wikimedia Commons
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