| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Rosaceae |
| Synonym | Polydontia ceylanica Wight |
| Synonym_2 | Pygeum wightanum Blume ex C. Muell. |
| Local Name | Attanaripongu |
| Local Name 2 | Irattani |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, bark brownish-black, rough, vertically fissured and shallowly horizontally cracked forming thin tessellate flakes; branchlets prominently lenticellate. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules small, lateral, cauducous; petiole 10-22 mm, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 10-21 x 4.5-8.5 cm, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or elliptic-ovate, base acute, round or oblique, apex acuminate or obtusely acute, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-9 pairs, pinnate, prominent, flowers bisexual, 5-6 mm across, white, in axillary racemes; fruit a drupe 20-25 x 35-37 mm, depressed globose, seeds 2, globose. |
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