| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Capparaceae |
| Local Name | Mavulangam |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Small trees; bark smooth, grey; blaze dull yellow, speckled. Leaves digitately trifloliate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 5-7 cm long, slender, glabrous; petiolule 5-7 mm, slender, glabrous; leaflets 11-15 x 3-4 cm, obovate, or ovate-lanceolate, base oblique, obtuse or subacute, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, parallel, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, white, in terminal corymbs; pedicel 2.5-5 cm long; sepals 4, 5 mm long, free, oblong, adnate to the lobed disc; petals 4, ca.1.5 cm, white, long-clawed, obovate; disc incurved, nectariferous; stamens many, free, not much longer than the petals, inserted at the base of gynophore; gynophore to 2.5 cm long; filaments to 4 cm long; anthers basifixed; gynophore 1-3 cm long; ovary ellipsoid, superior 1-[2]-celled, ovules many; stigma sessile, capitate. Fruit a berry, globose, 2-2.5 cm across, smooth, turning to red; seeds brown, reniform, smooth. |