Vitex pinnata L.

Type
Indigenous
Family
Verbenaceae
Synonym
Vitex pubescens Vahl.
Local Name
Myla
Local Name 2
Aattumayila
Habit
Medium sized tree
Botanical Features

Trees, bark thick, white; young shoot grey pubescent; branchlets 4-angled, lenticellata. Leaves 3-foliolate, sometimes 5-foliolate, opposite, estipulate; rachis 35-70 mm, slender, glabrous, grooved above, winged in coppice shoot, flattened; petiolule 7-10 mm, lamina 7-16 x 1.8-4.9 cm, elliptic, lanceolate or oblanceolate, base acute, apex acuminate, margin entire or coarsely serrate, yellow gland dotted beneath, flowers bisexual, cream with yellow palate, fruit a drupe, 1.3 cm long, obovoid, supported by enlarged calyx; seeds 4.