Premna wightiana Schauer

Type
Indigenous
Family
Verbenaceae
Local Name
Pincha
Habit
Small sized tree
Botanical Features

Evergreen trees, bark brownish-black, rough, vertically fissured and shallowly horizontally cracked forming thin tessellate flakes; branchlets prominently lenticellate. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules small, lateral, cauducous; petiole 10-22 mm, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 10-21 x 4.5-8.5 cm, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or elliptic-ovate, base acute, round or oblique, apex acuminate or obtusely acute, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-9 pairs, pinnate, flowers bisexual, white, fruit a drupe, globose,  seeds 2, globose.