| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Myristicaceae |
| Synonym | Myristica attenuata Wall.ex Hook.f.& Thoms. |
| Local Name | Chorappayin |
| Local Name 2 | Chorappathiri |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Tree Seed | Fruit type: Capsule Vernacular name: Chora - payin, Chen-nelli, Chora panu, Chenalla (Malayalam) (Gamble, 1922); Chora pathiri (Tamil) Flowering season: December to March, November to December (Bose et al., 1998) Fruiting season: December to March, February to April (Bose et al., 1998) |
| Botanical Features | Deciduous trees, bark surface greenish-black to greenish-brown, mottled with green and white, smooth, exfoliations irregular, blaze pink-red; exudation watery, red; branchlets horizontal; branchlets rusty tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, estipulate; petiole 10-15 mm long, stout, grooved above, rusty pubescent when young and glabrous when mature; lamina 8-20 x 2.5-7.5 cm, oblong-lanceolate, oblong or ovate, base round, or acute, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, glossy above and glaucous beneath or rusty pubescent along costae beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 12-16 pairs, parallel, slender, prominent beneath, flowers unisexual, in rusty pubescent fascicles on thick peduncle from the axils of leaves or of the scars of fallen leaves; fruit a capsule 2-valved, 3-3.7 cm long, ovoid, apiculate, rusty tomentose; seed one; aril brilliant crimson |
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