| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Ebenaceae |
| Local Name | Karimchora |
| Local Name 2 | Navatti |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen dioecious trees, to 18 m high, bark 10-12 mm thick, black, smooth; blaze yellow; branchlets, young leaves and inflorescence densely rufous tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 6-12 mm, slender, glabrous; lamina 5-15 x 2-4 cm, elliptic, oblong-lanceolate or ovate, base attenuate, apex acuminate, margin entire, reflexed, coriaceous, densely rufous tomentose when young, glabrous when mature; lateral nerves 6-9 pairs, slender, pinnate, faint, intercostae reticulate, faint Flowers unisexual, yellowish-white; male flowers: 3-6, in axillary cymes, 10-12 mm long; calyx campanulate, deeply 4 lobed; lobes broadly ovate or orbicular, obtuse, densely fulvous hairy, margin strongly reflexed; corolla salver shaped; lobes 4, ovate, obtuse, hairy without, twisted; stamens 16, in pairs of unequal length; filaments of each pairs connate at base, villous; anthers lanceolate, apiculate; pistillode globose, densely hairy; female flowers : solitary, axillary, sessile, calyx and corolla as in male flowers; staminodes 8, longer and shorter alternate with each other; filaments villous; anthers linear; ovary superior, sessile, globose, 8-celled, ovule 1 in each cell, densely hairy; styles 4, much reflexed; stigma dilated. Fruit a berry 2.5 x 2.5 cm, globose, green, glabrous, calyx not enlarged; seeds 12 x 7 mm, compressed; endosperm equable. |