Alangium salvifolium
Family: ALANGIACEAE
Malayalam Name(s): Ankodam, Ankolam, Ankolika, Arinjil, Azhinni, Irinjil, Karankolam, Kimri
English name(s): Sage leaved Alangium
Habit: Tree
Flowering & Fruiting: March-June
Habitat: Dry deciduous forests, also grown in homesteads
Description: Small trees, to 15 m high, bark greyish-brown; blaze yellow; branchlets tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 7-10 mm, tomentose, slender; lamina 7-15 x 3-4 cm, oblong, elliptic or ovate, base oblique or obtuse, apex acute, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous above, puberulous beneath; 3-5 nerved at base, lateral nerves 4-7 pairs, pinnate, ascending, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, white, fragrant, 1.5 cm across, in axillary cymes or fascicles; pedicel 4 mm, jointed, pubescent; bracts 4 mm, ovate; calyx 3 mm, adnate to ovary, cupular, tomentose; lobes 10, triangular-ovate; petals 10, 2.5 x 5 cm, linear-oblong, tomentose; stamens to 20; filaments 1 cm long, base fleshy, villous, subconnate at base; anthers linear; ovary infererior, 2 mm, turbinate, 1-celled, 1-ovuled, pendulous, ovary surmounted by a disc, enclosing the style; style 2 mm long, glabrous; stigma capitate. Fruit a berry, ca. 2-3 x 1-1.5 cm, subglobose, brownish-red, pubescent, crowned with calyx lobes; seed one, ovoid.
