| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Elaeocarpaceae |
| Local Name | Kara |
| Local Name 2 | Bhadraksham |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 20 m high, aerial roots on large buttresseses; bark 8-10 mm thick brown, mottled with grey; blaze red. Branchlets, petioles, peduncles and young leaves densely pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; petiole 15-40 mm, slender, pubescent, swollen tipped, with 2 minute glands at tip; lamina 5-14 x 2-6.2 cm, elliptic-obovate or elliptic ovate, base acute or cuneate, apex acute, caudate-acuminate or obtusely acuminate, margin crenate-serrate, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 3-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, slender, prominent, domatia glandular. Flowers bisexual, white, in axillary racemes to 8 cm long; sepals 5, ovate, pubescent on outside, densely glandulose, valvate; petals 5, laciniate, inserted round the base of glandular disc; stamens many, inserted between the glands on the disc; anthers not awned, tipped with hairs; ovary superior, densely tomentose, raised on torus, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style subulate, entire. Fruit a drupe, subglobose, green, style persistent; stone tubercled; seed one. |
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