Phyllanthus emblica L.
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Common names (English):
Common names (English):
Emblic myrobalan, Indian gooseberry
Local name (Kannada):
Habit: Tree
Distribution:
Throughout the tropics.
Use: Edible fruit/ Medicinal.
Description:
Deciduous trees, 8-15 m high, bark grey-brown, rough, irregularly flaking. Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious on short deciduous branchlets, closely overlapping, subsessile, oblong or linear-oblong. Flowers unisexual, 2-3 mm across, greenish-yellow, axillary, densely clustered. Male flowers: tepals 6, oblanceolate, 1.5 mm, obtuse, stamens 3. Female flowers: tepals 6, oblanceolate, obtuse. Fruit a capsule 1.5-2.5 cm across, subglobose, dehiscing into 6 cocci, indehiscent berry.