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Sri Lanka stands unique among the biodiversity hotspots of the world. A remarkably high number of endemic species is found among our fauna and flora with around 23 percent of the flowering plants being endemic. Sri Lanka is home for about 3,360 flowering plant species belonging to 200 plant families. The low country wet zone and mountainous areas in the South West harbour 90 percent of our endemic species

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Due to the recent research studies, the molecular structures of 200 endemic plants of Sri Lanka have been identified by a group of researchers. They have chemically identified the compounds, molecular structures and elements of the plants by studying their bark, timber, fruits or flowers.These plants may hold a possible cure (complete or partial) for a disease, and is yet to be discovered

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Artabotrys zeylanicus

 

Common name: Ceylon Green Champa/Kalu Bambare wel/Yakada wel/Patika wel

Botanical name: Artabotrys zeylanicus

Family: Annonaceae

Vernacular Name: Patika wel / Kalu bambara wel

 

Ceylon Green Champa is a woody climber, with velvet-hairy branchlets. Leaves are oblong-elliptic or lanceshaped, 10-15 cm long, 3.5-7 cm wide, carried on 4 mm long stalk. Leaves are pointed or with tapering blunt tips, hairless. Flowers are covered with brownish velvet-hairs. They are carried on 1.2 cm long velvet-hairy stalks. Sepals are 6 mm long, velvety, as broad as long. Petals are 3-3.7 cm long, inner ones shorter and narrower. Flower limb is flat lanceshaped. Ceylon Green Champa is found in forests of Karnataka, Kerala and Sri Lanka. Flowering: December-January.

Distribution: Southern Deccan peninsula and srilanka.

Ecology: In Srilanka,confined to the moist and adjacent intermediate region,in the lowland and lower montane zone,ascending up to about 1000m,both in primary and secondary forest but particularly abundant in disturbed vegetation.

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Chemical Compounds:

8-Methoxyorugidione

Artabotrine

Atherospermidine

Lanuginosine

Liriodenine

Ouregidione

Oxobuxifoline

Oxocrebanine

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