Nothopegia beddomei Gamble

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.