| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Verbenaceae |
| Local Name | Aattunochi |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Deciduous trees, bark yellowish-grey or greyish-brown, rough; blaze dull-yellow. Leaves digitately compound, opposite, decussate; rachis 5.5-8.5 cm, slender, swollen at the base, glabrous; leaflets 3-5, whorled; petiolule 3-20 mm long, slender, glabrate; lamina 2.5-16 x 1.5-4 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, base acute or attenuate, apex acute or obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above, puberulent beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-14 pairs, corolla white, bilipped, purplish-pubescent in the throat, fruit a drupe, 1.2-2 cm long, obovoid, purple-black, fleshy. |