| Type | Indigenous |
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| Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Synonym | Vatica roxburghiana Blume |
| Local Name | Adakkappayin |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, bole buttressed; bark pale green, smooth; exudation resinous; young shoots, buds, outside of perianth exposed in bud, lepidote. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules small, fugacious; petiole 20-50 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 9-25 x 3-11 cm, ovate or oblong, base obtuse or broadly cuneate, apex obtusely acute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 10-14 pairs, parallel, prominent, flowers white, in axillary spreading panicles; fruit a capsule, lepidote, subglobose shortly pointed with 3 obscure, loculicidal furrows, pericarp coriaceous; calyx persistent. |
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