Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Polygonaceae | Genus: Homalocladium | Species: Homalocladium platycladum (F.Muell.) L.H.Bailey |
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| Synonym | Muehlenbeckia platyclada (F.J. Müll.) Meisn. | Flower Color | Red - Pink |
| Common Name | Flower Type | Solitary | |
| English / Trade Name | Ribbon Bush, Centipede Plant | Flowering Period | Jan-March |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Fruiting Period | Jan-March | |
| Altitude | up to 1500 m | Fruit Type | Nut |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | Fruit a nut enclosed in the fleshy deep red or purplish perianth |
| Habitat | In tropics | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Native of Pacific Islands, cultivated in gardens across the India | Bark Details | smooth often rugged with age |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Manimajara and Daria | Origin | Exotic |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Ovate | ||
| Description of Species | An erect shrub up to 2 m tall, with broad, thin, articulate, flat, delicately striate, ribbon-like phylloclades (modified stem). Leaves sessile, membranous, borne directly from the joints of stem without a stalk, entire, often lobed at base, ovate, obtuse. Flowers in sessile clusters, bracteate, bracts ovate. Perianth segments 5, greenish, oblong; Ovary ovoid, 3-angular. Fruit a nut enclosed in the fleshy deep red or purplish perianth. | Leaf Details | Leaves sessile, membranous, borne directly from the joints of stem without a stalk, entire, often lobed at base, ovate, obtuse. Stem modified seems like leaf , with broad, thin, articulate, flat, delicately striate, ribbon-like phylloclades |
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