| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Verbenaceae |
| Local Name | Kumbil |
| Local Name 2 | Kumizhu |
| Trade Name | Gambhari |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Deciduous trees, to 18 m high, bark 8-10 mm thick, white or whitish-grey, smooth, exfoliating in thin flakes; blaze yellow, with triangular rays; branchlets stout, tomentose. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 5-12.5 cm long, slender, tomentose; lamina 7.5-25 x 6-20 cm, broadly ovate or ovate, base cordate truncate or rounded, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above and tomentose beneath, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; nerves 3-5 from base, lateral nerves 3-6, pinnate, prominent, puberulent beneath; prominent; 2 glands above on either side of the midrib. Flowers bisexual, yellow with orange-pink shade, in terminal panicles 3-3.7 cm long; calyx 6 mm long, campanulate, 5 toothed, tomentose; corolla 3 cm across, bilabiate, lobes 5, subequal, obovate, obtuse, densely hairy; stamens 4; anthers 2 mm; ovary 4 mm, superior, glabrous, ovules 4; style 2 cm, slender, glabrous, unequally bifid. Fruit a drupe 2.5-3.5 x 1-1.5 cm, ovoid, pulpy, pyrene bonny, ovoid with a deep depression, yellow; seeds 2-4, elliptic. |
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