| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Flacourtiaceae |
| Synonym | Gmelina indica Burm.f. |
| Synonym_2 | Flacourtia romontchi L. Herit. |
| Local Name | Karimulli |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Dioecious shrubs or small trees, often armed with simple and branched thorns. Leaves variable in shape and size, 1.5-4 x 1-3 cm, elliptic-ovate, obovate, oblong or suborbicular, base cuneate, margins coarsely crenate, apex obtuse or emarginate, subcoriaceous; petiole to 8 mm long. Flowers c. 4 mm across, yellowish green, solitary or in few-flowered axillary racemose clusters. Sepals 4-5, slightly connate at base, ovate. Male flowers: stamens numerous; anthers versatile; disc lobed. Female flowers: ovary c. 1 mm long, globular, 3-locular; ovules 2-per locule; stigma bilobed, recurved. Berries 0.5-1 cm across, subglobose, dark purple when ripe. Seeds obovoid, pale yellow. |