| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Euphorbiaceae |
| Synonym | Sapium insigne (Royle) Trim. |
| Synonym_2 | Excoecaria insignis Bedd. |
| Local Name | Klamaram |
| Local Name 2 | Kannnampotti |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Deciduous monoecious trees, to 15 m high; exudation milky; branchlets stout, terete. Leaves simple, alternate, petiole 10-50 mm, slender glabrous, with 2 conspicuous glands at the apex; lamina 7-20 x 2.5-7 cm, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-ovate or obovate, base acute, apex acuminate, margin crenate, membranous, glabrous; lateral nerves 10-18 pairs, pinnate, prominent beneath, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, reddish, in terminal spikes, male flowers above, female ones below or in separate spikes; bracts 2, orbicular; male flowers: many in each bracts; bracteoles linear; tepals 2, orbicular, concave, stamens 2, free, exserted; female flowers: solitary in each bract; bracteoles concave imbricate, basally connate, mucronate; tepals 2, ovate, acuminate; ovary superior, ovoid, glabrous, 3-locular, ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous; styles 2-3; stigmas 3, subsessile, recurved. Fruit a capsule, loculicidal, fleshy, subglobose; seeds 3, globose, smooth. |