| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Moraceae |
| Synonym | Urostigma arnottiana Miq. |
| Local Name | Kallarayal |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Deciduous independent trees, to 10 m high, aerial roots absent; bark surface grey-brown, smooth, tuberculate-lenticellate; blaze pink; latex milky. Leaves simple, alternate spiral; stipules 3-5 cm long, lateral, reddish-green, glabrous, cauducous, leaving annular scars; petiole 3-10 cm long, slender, red, not articulated, glabrous; lamina 6-20 x 5-13 cm, broadly ovate, base deeply cordate, apex caudate-acuminate, margin entire, slightly undulate, glabrous, coriaceous; 5-7-ribbed from base, lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia, in axillary pairs or crowded near the apex, sessile or shortly pedunculate, globose, glabrous, orifice plane; bracts 3, 1 x 2-2.5 mm, ovate, thin, eventually cauducous; flowers of 4 kinds; tepals red, more or less gamophyllous, 3-4 lobed, fleshy; male flowers sessile, around the orifice and sparsely scattered in the interior of the syconia; stamens 1, subsessile; anthers 2-celled, ovate-oblong, dehiscence longitudinally; female flowers sessile, sparsely scattered in the interior of syconia, cream, somewhat reddish on stylar side; ovary superior, depressed globose; style filiform; stigma flat gall flowered stalked; neutar flowers few. Synconium yellowish-brown when ripe; 5-7 mm across; achenes smooth. |