| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Euphorbiaceae |
| Synonym | Glochidion rigidum Bourd. |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 10 m high; branchlets greyish, black or chocolate-coloured, glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate; stipule lateral; petiole 3-6 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 4-12 x 2-5.5 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or obovate, base oblique, apex acuminate or apiculate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent,prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellow, in slightly supra-axillary upto 12-flowered clusters; peduncle upto 3 mm long; male flowers: pedicel 6-10 mm long; tepals 3 + 3, 2-4 x 1-2 mm, oblong-elliptic or obovate to subspathulate; stamens 3, ca.1 m long; female flowers: pedicels 1-5 mm; tepals 3+3, free or shortly connate, 0.7-1.5 x 0.3-1.2 mm, triangular, ovate, oblong or linear-lanceolate; ovary superior, 1-2 mm across, depressed or subglobose, 4-5 locular, ovules 2 in each cell; styles 4-5, initially free, deltoid, triangular or orbicular, connivent or erect, 1.2-2 x 1.2-3 mm; lobes like free styles. Fruit a capsule, 3-4 x 7-10 mm, some what depressed, 4-5 locular, deeply lobed with the lobes mostly bilobulate; seeds 5 or 6, 3 x 3 mm, dark brown, glabrous; pedicels upto 5 mm long. |