Agrostachis borneensis Becc

Type
Indigenous
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Synonym
Agrostachis longifolia (Wight) Trim.
Synonym_2
Agrostachis meeboldii Pax &Hoffim.
Local Name
Mulimpala
Local Name 2
Kozhivalan
Habit
Medium sized tree
Botanical Features

Dioecious evergreen trees to 15 m; bark blackish-grey mottled with white, smooth, brittle; blaze reddish-brown; branchlets stout, marked with the scales of petioles and stipules; exudation white, milky; young parts glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, stipulate; stipules lateral, short, broad, acute, cauducous; petiole 5-10 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 10-25 x 5-7.5 cm, oblanceolate or obovate-spathulate, base long attenuate, apex acuminate, margin entire, recurved, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-18 pairs, pinnate, prominent, flowers unisexual, yellow; fruit a capsule 7-15 mm across, 3-lobed, cocci globose, reddish, crustaceous, smooth; seeds globose, smooth, shining.