| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Flacourtiaceae |
| Local Name | Cherukunnan |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Shrub or small tree, to 8 m high, deciduous; branchlets angled at tips, glabrous. Leaves distichous, broadly elliptic, oblong-elliptic or ovate, rounded at base, subentire or crenulate, obtuse or shortly acute to acuminate at apex, 10-20 x 4-8 cm, stiff-coriaceous when old, glabrous; leaves at base of twigs smaller; lateral nerves 7-9 pairs, slender, raised and prominent beneath; petioles 6-19 mm long; stipules linear, acute, 2-4 mm long, caducous. Flowers in dense clusters from leaf axils or leafless axils, greenish; pedicels jointed at or above base, glabrous above point of joint, golden-pubescent below. Calyx gland-dotted pubescent at base, sometimes golden-pubescent above, green; lobes 5, oblong-ovate, concave. Stamens 6-8;filaments glabrous, alternating with linear-oblong villous disc lobes. Styles as long as stamens with discoid stigma. Fruits subglobose to broadly ellipsoid or oblong, 2-2.5 cm long, shining, smooth, orange-yellow, 3-valved; seeds 10-12, ovoid, ca 5 x 3 mm, compressed with scarlet aril. |