| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Euphorbiaceae |
| Synonym | Glochidion velutinum Wight |
| Local Name | Chathakadambu |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Tomentose trees, to 7 m high, bark brown, rough; branchlets brown Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral; petiole 3-6 mm, slender, tomentose; lamina 3-15 x 1.5-8 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, base acute or oblique, apex acute, obtuse or acuminate at apex, margin entire, coriaceous, densely to sparsely puberulous to glabrous above ; lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, Flowers unisexual, yellow, solitary or few together in axillary clusters; male flowers: pedicels 5-14 mm long, filiform, tepals 3-3, 1.5-4 x 0.8-2 mm, oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate, tomentose; stamens 3, 1-2 mm long,; connectives produced; female flowers: pedicel 1-5 mm long; tepals 3+3, oblong, ovate, triangular, lanceolate or linear; ovary superior, 1-1.5 mm across, subglobose, 3-6 locular; ovules 2 in each cell; style 1-3 mm long,apical lobes 3-6, orbicular, elliptic, . Fruit a capsule 3-5 x 6-12 mm, depressed, deeply lobed with bilobulate lobes; seeds 5-7, 2 x 2.5 mm, grey, smooth; pedicels 5-10 mm long. |