| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Clusiaceae (Guttiferae) |
| Synonym | Calophyllum elatum Bedd. |
| Synonym_2 | Calophyllum tomentosum auct. non Wight |
| Local Name | Kattupunna |
| Local Name 2 | Punnapai |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Lofty trees, to 35 m high, bole straight, sometimes with small buttresses; bark yellowish-brown, deeply spirally fissured; blaze red with white streaks; branchlets subquadrangular, minutely brown tomentose. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, estipulate; petiole slender, grooved above, glabrescent; lamina elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, base acute, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, shining, coriaceous; lateral nerves many. Flowers bisexual, white, in panicles or racemes, terminal and from the axils of the upper leaves; peduncle slender; pedicel slender, white, sparsely to densely tomentellous; sepals 4, concave, elliptic, ciliolate, inner 2 petalloid ; petals white, orbicular, early cauducous, inner ones smaller; long; filaments united at the base; ovary superior, slender, 1-celled, ovule one, erect; flexuous; stigma peltate, concave, obscurely lobed. Fruit a drupe, 2-2.5 cm long, obliquely ovoid, dark purple, smooth. |