| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Euphorbiaceae |
| Synonym | Excoecaria crenulata Wight |
| Synonym_2 | Excoecaria bantamensis Muell.-Arg. |
| Local Name | Era |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, upto 8 m high; branchlets 3-7 mm thick, flattened or angled when young, terete in age, brown. Leaves simple, opposite; stipules minute, inter petiolar, 15 mm long, lanceolate; petiole 5-30 mm long, glabrous; lamina 8-20 x 2-4.5 cm, oblong-lanceolate, oblanceolate, elliptic or obovate, base acute or obtuse, apex acuminate, apiculate or subacute, margins shallowly crenate-serrate, lateral nerves, 10-22 pairs, slender, parallel, prominent; intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellowish-green; bracteoles with large glands on either side; male flowers: tepals 3; stamens 2-3, 1.5-2 mm long, ovary superior, 1.5-2 mm across, subglobose, 3-celled, ovules 1 in each cell; styles 3, 3-7 mm long. Fruit a capsule 1-3 cm across, somewhat depressed, shallowly or sometimes deeply 3 lobed, seeds globose |