| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Flacourtiaceae |
| Synonym | Casearia bourdillonii Mukherjee |
| Synonym_2 | Casearia varians Bedd. |
| Local Name | Vellakunnan |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Small trees, about 4 m tall:Bark smooth, grayish brown:branchlets and shoots glabrous:Leaves simple, alternate, oblanceolate to elliptic-oblong, about 7-17 x 3-8 cm across, base acute to attenuate, margin subentire or slightly crenulate-repand, apex acute to obtuse, membranous when young, chartaceous, glossy when mature, glandular pellucid, green above and paler beneath, lateral veins about 6-8 on either side of the midrib, impressed above and prominent beneath with few secondary, stipules leaf like:Inflorescence clustered in shortly pedunculate axillary racemose, few to many flowers. :Flowers bisexual, greenish yellow, about 5 mm across, perigynous, pedicels about 2 mm long, elongating in fruit, bracts ovate, chartaceous, scalelike, bracteoles on short tubercles, sepals 4-5, imbricate, initially broadly ovate, petals absent. Stamens 8, filaments filiform,staminodes with tuft of hairs at apex,anthers 2 loculed,Ovary superior, unilocular:Fruit capsule, dehised by 2 valves:Seeds many, ovoid-obovoid, arillate. |