| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Myristicaceae |
| Synonym | Myristica magnifica Bedd. |
| Local Name | Kothappayin |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Deciduous trees; bole often buttressed, with large aerial roots and pneumatophores; bark surface purplish-black, smooth; blaze pale chocolate; young parts clothed with golden brown tomentum. Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious, estipulate; petiole 16-30 mm long, lamina 30-60 x 10-15 cm, oblong or elliptic-oblong, base round, apex acute or acuminate, glabrous above, reddish tomentose beneath, coriaceous; flowers unisexual, urceolate, rusty tomentose; fruit a capsule 8-10 x 6-7.5 cm, oblong-ovoid, covered with tomentum; seed one cylindrical, brown; aril orange red deeply cleft into a few broad divisions with these again much lacerated and covering the apex of the seed. |
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