English   Kannada   Malayalam   Tamil   
Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
Habit : | Evergreen trees, up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, grey; blaze reddish brown. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous, sometimes with purple tinge. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petioles 1-1.3 cm long, canaliculate; lamina 5-10 x 2.5-3 cm, elliptic or oblong, apex acute, base rounded and cuneate, margin serrate, coriaceous; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves 6-9 pairs; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers in short pedunculate cymes, sessile or subsessile, pistilode present; female flowers in axillary fascicles, staminodes present. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, globose, red to purple; locule 4, each 1-seeded. |