| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Euphorbiaceae |
| Synonym | Cyclostemon cornfertiflora Hook.f. |
| Local Name | Kaduvapidukkan |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees,25 m high; bark greyish, smooth; blaze dull yellow; branchlets glabrous, brownish, terete. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, small, caducous; petiole 5-12 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 6-22 x 2.5-7.5 cm, oblong or elliptic-oblong, base oblique, apex obtusely acuminate, margin entire or distantly serrate, glabrous and glossy, coriaceous; lateral nerves 7-10 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, axillary but usually in clusters on old wood; male flowers: pedicels 4-5 mm long; tepals 5-6, 4-6 × 3.5-5.5 mm, suborbicular, white, ciliate; stamens 15-20; filaments glabrous; inserted around disc; anthers oblong; disc impressed, large, glabrous, radiately ribbed with inflexed marginal lobe; female flowers: nearly sessile; disc cupular; ovary superior, brown tomentose, 2-celled, ovules 2. Fruit a drupe, 3.5-5 cm across, subglobose, some what flattened, pubescent, 2-locular; endocarp fleshy. |