| Type | Exotic |
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| Family | Casurinaceae |
| Common Name | Choolamaram, kattadi |
| Origin | Andamans to polynesian islands |
| Botanical Features | Dioecious trees, to 30 m high, bark brown, rough, peeling off in vertical strips branchlets to 15 cm, arising from the axils of small, recurved scales, ribbed. Leaves scaly, ca. 7 at a node, alternating with the ribs of the upper node, 0.5-1 mm long, acute. Flowers in spikes; male flowers: in terminal spikes, pendulous, brown, of 3-6 x 0.3 cm; tepals 2, 1 mm, lanceolate, scarious, thinly ciliate, acute; stamen 1, inflexed in bud; filaments 1-2 mm; anther oblong, 1 mm; female flowers: in axillary spikes of 0.4-0.8 x 0.3-0.4 cm, solitary or in pairs, condensed into an ovoid` cone', shortly stalked; bracts and bracteoles 1.5-2 mm, persistent, woody; tepals absent; ovary superior, 1 mm, ovoid; style 0.5-0.8 cm; style filiform, persistent, reddish-purple, 2-fid. Fruit a carpophore, 1.5-3 x 1-2 cm, ovoid or oblong-cylindric; nutlets compressed; seeds winged. |
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