Streblus asper Lour.

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Rosales > Moraceae > Streblus > S. asper

Description: Evergreen, dioecious or rarely monoecious trees, to 10 m high, bark 10-20 mm thick, light grey, smooth, lenticellate, fibrous; blaze creamy yellow; exudation milky white latex; branches often drooping; branchlets on trunk often arrested and thorny. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules 2-5 mm long, lateral, lanceolate, adpressedly hairy, cauducous; petiole to 4 mm long, slender, pubescent; lamina 3-10 x 1.2-5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-obovate or rhomboid, base cuneate, acute or obtuse, apex acute or acuminate, margin serrate, or subentire, glabrous, scabrid on both sides; 3-ribbed from base, lateral nerves 4-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers unisexual, greenish-yellow; male in axillary heads, peduncle to 10 mm, sparsely puberulous to glabrous with 1-2 small bracts at the base, occasionally on the stalk, and a few small bracts at the apex; tepals 4, free, lanceolate, 2.5 mm, puberulous without, subacute; stamens 4; filaments 2.5 mm; anthers 1 mm; female flowers axillary, solitary or 2-5 in a cluster; peduncle to 10 mm, puberulous bracts and bracteoles 2.5 mm, ovate, puberulous; tepals 4, ovate, concave, 4 mm, puberulous, subacute; ovary 3 mm, ovoid; style 1 mm long, then lengthening to 2-3 mm; stigmatic arms 3-4 mm long, lengthening to 6-12 mm long, glabrous. Fruit a drupe, 6-8 mm across, globose, obscurely 2-humped, yellow to orange, tepals persistent; seed one, 4-5 mm across, globose, greyish-white.

Flowering and fruiting: January-October

Uses: MedicinalAyurveda,SiddhaFolk Medicine,Wood moderately hard used for making yokes. Leaves used to polish wood and milky juice is medicinal, used as galactogogue, their poultice applied to swelling. Twigs chewed for cleaning teeth. Fruits edible. Bark, root, leaves exudates used as medicine for diarrhea, dysentery, dental disease, fever and used as aphrodisiac. Seeds used in epistaxis, piles and diarrhea.

Cultivation: Cultivated, Semi - Cultivated, Wild

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org