| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Rubiaceae |
| Local Name | Marachethi |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, to 8 m high, bark smooth, greyish-brown; blaze pink; branchlets terete, glabrous. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule 4-4.5 mm x 5-6 mm, interpetiolar, apex acute; petiole 5-20 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 7.5-20 x 3-7 cm, elliptic-oblanceolate, obovate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base attenuate, acute or cuneate, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-20, pinnate, very slender; intercostae reticulate, slender. Flowers bisexual, white, fragrant, small, sessile, in terminal, long peduncle, bracteate, panicled cyme; peduncles and pedicels puberulus; calyx tube minute, 4 teethed, membranous; corolla tube 6 mm long, slender, lobes 4, oblong, recurved; stamens 4, attached to the mouth of corolla tube; anthers sagitate; ovary 2-celled, inferior, ovules one in each cell; style filiform; stigma bifid. Fruit berry, red-purple, 5 mm across, globose, glabrous; pyrenes planoconvex. |
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