Quassia indica

Family: SIMAROUBACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Njotta, Karinjotta

English name(s): Niepa bark tree, Rangoon creeper

Habit: Tree

Flowering & Fruiting: Throughout the year

Medicinal: Yes

Habitat: Along backwaters and moist deciduous forests

Description: Evergreen tree or shrub to 10 m high. Leaves elliptic-oblong, subacute-rounded at base, acute to acuminate at apex, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, reticulately nerved. Petioles 1-2 cm long, stout. Flowers 20 or more in umbelliform glabrous or puberulous inflorescences. Peduncles 7-30 cm long, stout, flat, thick-above; Pedicels 1-1.5 cm long, to 3 cm in fruit, jointed at base; bracts minute. Calyx 2-3 cm long, 4-lobed; lobes semiorbicular, thick, puberulous outside. Petals 4, free, oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, 1-2 x ca 0.5 cm, dorsally pubescent, white, pale yellow or purplish. Stamens 8, pubescent. Anthers oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 mm long; filaments puberulous. Ovary ca 2 mm across, puberulous; styles to 2 cm long, glabrous. Drupes 1-4 together, flat, smooth, glandular and reticulate.

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