Hydnocarpus pentandrus

FAMILY : ACHARIACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Kotti, Maravetti, Marotti, Neeratti, Niralam, Thamana

English name(s): Chaulmugra

Habit: Tree

Flowering & Fruiting: December-May

Medicinal: Yes

Habitat: Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains

Description: Dioecious trees, to 25 m high, bole fluted; bark 4-5 mm thick, surface pale brown mottled with white patches, smooth, brittle; branchlets pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, 8-17 x 3-8 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, base acute, obtuse or round, margin crenate, serrate or entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent; petiole 8-10 mm, stout, pubescent, grooved above; stipules small, lateral, cauducous. Flowers unisexual, 5-10 mm across, greenish-yellow, solitary or in small fascicle. Sepals 5, broadly ovate, pubescent. Petals 5, broadly ovate, greenish-yellow, fringed with soft white hairs, with a scale at the base; scales half as long as petals, densely hairy. Stamens 5-15; filaments subulate, hairy at the base; anthers of female flowers possess no pollen; ovary globose, 1-celled, tomentose; stigma sessile and two lobbed. Fruit a berry 5-7 cm across, globose, rind thick, brown, rough with uneven surface; seeds numerous, yellowish, obtusely angular.

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