Cocculus laurifolius DC.Family: Menispermaceae
Synonyms: Cebatha laurifolia (DC.) Kuntze, Cocculus angustifolius Hassk. , Cocculus bariensis Pierre ex Gagnep., Galloa trinervis Hassk.
English: laurel-leaf snailseed
Chinese: 衡州乌药
Malayalam: ആടുകൊല്ലി Aadukolli, Marpinki
Chinese: 樟叶木防己
Russian: Коккулус лавролистный
Other names: dal chini, kikra, marpingi, nagdaun, pard, paror, parura, tilpara, tilpharo, tilpharya
Japanese: Iso-yama-ao-ki, Koshû-u-yaku
Description: Trees up to 6 m tall; branches drooping; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 3-8 mm, slender; lamina 7-12 x 3-5.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate, base acute or cuneate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, shining above, chartaceous; basal nerves 3, strong, almost parallel to the margin beyond the middle of lamina; intercostae reticulate, slender, faint. Flowers unisexual, in axillary panicles; sepals 6, ovate, obtuse; petals 6, 2 x 1.5 mm, broadly obtuse, glabrous; stamens 6 in male flowers; free, anthers ovate, within curved margins; staminodes 12 in female flowers, seriate, outer staminodes ovate, tri lobed, with a small middle-lobe; inner smaller, cup shaped; ovaries 3, free, curved, 1-ovuled; stigma sessile, curved out. Fruit a drupe, rotund, glabrous, depressed at either ends; seed 1; endocarp with small curved aperture on both sides, finely ridged on dorsal surface.
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