| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Euphorbiaceae |
| Synonym | Antidesma zeylanicum Lamk. |
| Local Name | Thathalamaram |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark pale brown, thin, smooth; branchlets pale to dark brown, glabrous, sparsely ferrugineous-puberulous when young. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate; stipules lateral, 2-2.5 mm long, subulate or triangular-acuminate, cauducous; petiole 1.5-5 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 3.5-15 x 1.5-4.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-obovate; base acute or rarely round, apex acuminate to chartaceous lateral nerves 5-12 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, flowers unisexual, green; fruit a drupe, 4-6 x 3-5 mm, flattened, suborbicular or lenticellate or broadly obliquely ellipsoid, irregularly or alveolate, glabrous, often with white pustules, red when ripe. |