| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Sapotaceae |
| Synonym | Donella roxburgii (G.Don) Pierre ex Lecomte |
| Local Name | Atha |
| Local Name 2 | Noolambazham |
| Local Name 3 | Pulichakka |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, to 30 m high, bark grey or pale brown, smooth, cracked vertically, inner bark fibrous; exudation milky; branches horizontal; young shoots densely ferruginous pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, scattered, spreading distichously, estipulate; petiole 3-10 mm long, slender, pubescent; lamina 4-17 x 2-5 cm, elliptic, oblong, elliptic-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, base acute, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous when mature, shiny, coriaceous; lateral nerves many, parallel, close, slender, looped near margin forming intramarginal nerve; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, green or greenish-white, in axillary fascicles, pedicels 3-5 mm long, pubescent; calyx lobes 5-6, sepals 2 x 1.5 mm, imbricate, concave, obtuse; corolla campanulate, lobes 5-6 tube, 0.7-1.2 mm long, 1 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, villous along margin, subacute; stamens 5-6, included; filaments subulate; anthers ovate; ovary densely hairy, 5-6 locular, superior, ovules one in each cell; style short, 1 mm long, glabrous; stigma blunt. Fruit a berry, globose, 3-5 cm across, yellowish-green; seeds brownish-yellow, subellipsoid, compressed, shiny. |
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