| Type | Indigenous |
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| Family | Euphorbiaceae |
| Synonym | Pierardia courtallensis Wight |
| Synonym_2 | Baccaurea sapida Bedd. |
| Local Name | Mootilpazham |
| Local Name 2 | Mootilthoori |
| Habit | Small to Medium |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, bole uneven with tubercles; bark greyish-yellow, rough; branchlets terete, rough; young shoots brown-puberulous and furfuraceous. Leaves simple, alternate, often clustered towards the tip of branchlets; stipules 3-5 mm long, lateral, lanceolate, cauducous; petiole 10-60 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrescent or puberulous; lamina 5.5-30 x 1.5-8.5 cm, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, base acute, attenuate or cuneate, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, lateral nerves 4-7 pairs, pinnate, slender, flowers unisexual, dark crimson, in densely clustered slender racemes on old stem; fruit a capsule 15-30 x 15-25 mm, subglobose, ovoid, ellipsoid or obovoid, 3 locular, thick walled, often with 6 longitudinal ribs, pale yellow when ripe, brown when dry, pubescent, tardily dehiscent; seeds 3, oblong, arillate. |
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