| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Anacardiaceae |
| Synonym | Nothopegia colebrookeana sensu Bedd. |
| Synonym_2 | Nothopegia beddomei Gamble var. wynaadica Ellis & Chandra., |
| Local Name | Peacheru |
| Local Name 2 | Aera |
| Local Name 3 | Cheru |
| Common Name | Aera |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark grey-brown, mottled with white and green, smooth, brittle; outer bark 1 mm thick, dark, dead; inner bark 4-5 mm thick; blaze pink; exudation if present scanty, white, acrid; branchlets slender. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 3-10 cm, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 4-15 x 1.2-4.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute at both ends, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-25 pairs, parallel, prominent, flowers small, in axillary racemes, fruit a drupe, fleshy, ovoid, acute at apex, blue; pericarp thick filled with black resin cells; seed pendulous. |