| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Icacinaceae |
| Synonym | Gomphandra polymorpha Wight |
| Local Name | Kambilichedi |
| Local Name 2 | Chottamaram |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 7 m high, bark dark grey, smooth; blaze yellow; branchlets green. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 5-15 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 3-12 x 1.8-5 cm, elliptic, obovate or elliptic-obovate, base acute, apex obtuse, obtusely acute, acute or acuminate, margin entire, coriaceous; lateral nerves 3-7 pairs, pinnate, slender. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, greenish-white; calyx minute, cup-shaped; lobes 4-5; corolla 4 mm long; lobes 4-5, acute, lobes inflexed at apex; male flowers : stamens 4-5, exserted, free; filaments thick; anthers pendulous from the interior apex of the filament; disc thick, annular or 0; female flowers : ovary superior, oblong, 1-celled, ovules 2; style conic; stigma small or discoid. Fruit a drupe, 15 x 8 mm, pale yellow, oblong-terete; endocarp wrinkled; seed pendulous, longitudinally surrounded by raphe. |