| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Sterculiaceae |
| Local Name | Mukuram |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 25 m high, bark vertically fissured; branchlets lepidote. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules free, lateral, cauducous; petiole 20-25 mm, stout; lamina 12.5-20 x 5-10 cm, elliptic, obovate, oblong, elliptic-oblong to ovate-elliptic, base rounded, subcordate or oblique, apex mucronate to obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above, adpressed hairy beneath; coriaceous. Flowers unisexual, greenish-pink, tomentose panicles; peduncle lepidote; pedicel 1 mm; calyx 5-6 mm, 5-6 toothed; petals absent; in male flowers: androgynophore slender; in female flowers : carpels 4-5, superior,, glabrous. Fruit of 1-3 samara, 3-8 x 2-5 cm, pale brown, with a broad keel on one side, smooth, shining; seed one. |