Common names (English):

South Indian mahua

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Tree

Distribution:

Sri Lanka, India, Tropical Himalaya

Use: Medicinal.

Description:

Medium-sized to large much-branched deciduous trees. Leaves crowded at apex of year's growth, narrowly oblong, elliptic, oblanceolate or obovate, rounded to acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base. Flowers solitary in axils of small deciduous bracts. Corolla yellowish, whitish or yellowish green, fleshy; tube inflated, 8 mm long; lobes 8-12, oblong. Anthers 16-24, those of the upper whorl sessile, hairy. Style exserted 2 cm. Fruit yellow, oblong or oblong-ellipsoid.