| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Ebenaceae |
| Local Name | Thumbimaram |
| Local Name 2 | Beediyilamaram |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Dioecious trees, to 20 m high, bark 10 mm, brown, deeply fissured; ridges black, fissures lighter; young parts rusty-tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate or subopposite, estipulate; petiole 4-10 mm long, slender, tomentose; lamina 3.5-15 x 3-6.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or ovate, base acute or obtuse, apex obtuse, round or subacute, often emarginate, margin entire, glabrescent above, thinly pubescent below, coriaceous, lateral nerves 5-9 pairs, pinnate, prominent intercostae subscalariform, slender, faint. Flowers unisexual, white; male flowers: in short densely tawny-tomentose drooping axillary cymes, sometimes at the base of branchlets; peduncle 7 mm, tomentose; calyx yellowish-green, campanulate; lobes 5, ovate, tomentose, acute; corolla tubular, thin-fleshy; tube 1 cm, appressed hairy without; lobes 5, ovate, 3 mm, acute, reflexed; stamens 10-16, in pairs; anthers 2 mm, oblong, acute or apiculate; pistillode reduced, pubescent; female flowers: solitary, axillary; pedicel 4 mm long, stout, tomentose; bracteoles present; calyx green to brown, deeply 5-lobed; lobes ovate, 7 mm, margin folded-crinkled, acute; corolla tubular, thin-fleshy, tube 1 cm, appressed hairy without; lobes 5, ovate, 3 mm, acute, reflexed; staminodes 8-10, 4 mm, lanceolate; ovary superior, 4 mm across, globose, tomentose, 6-celled, ovules 1-in each cell; style 3 mm long, bifid. Fruit a berry, globose, apiculate, rusty-tomentose when young, glabrous later; calyx slightly enlarged, fulvous-tomentose, margin reflexed; seeds 1-4. |
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