| Type | Indigenous |
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| Family | Sterculiaceae |
| Local Name | Peenari |
| Local Name 2 | Kavalam |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Deciduous trees, bole straight; bark 15-25 mm thick, greyish-brownish, smooth, exfoliating in thin scales; blaze pink, radially streaked; branchlets stellate-tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, ensiform, cauducous; petiole 25-50 mm long stout, swollen at both ends, stellate-tomentose; lamina 12-25 x 6-15 cm, broadly ovate-oblong, ovate or broadly obovate-oblong, base obtuse, subcordate or truncate, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above, stellate-tomentose beneath, coriaceous; 3-5-ribbed from base, prominent, lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, pinnate, flowers polygamous, white, dotted with pink, arranged in simple cymes of 3, fruit an aggregate of 1-5 radiating follicles, obovoid, red tomentose, smooth and pink within; seeds ovoid, black, smooth, shining. |
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