Description: Medium sized trees, to 20 m. in height and to 40 cm in diameter, bark greenish brown, smooth, blaze red, branchlets stout, terete, glabrous. Leaves pinnate, to 25 cm long, rachis to 10 cm long, terete glabrous; leaflets 4, rarely 2; petiolule 3-5 mm long, glabrous; lamina 5-19 x 3-7.5 cm, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, acute, obtuse or rounded at base, acute or obtusely acuminate at apex, glabrous, chartaceous, lateral nerves 3-5 pairs, slender, arching along the margins, intercostae reticulate, faint; stipule c. 1 x 0.5 cm, obliquely ovate, acute, 5 or 6 nerved, glabrous, basal appendage absent. Flowers in racemes, axillary or from leaf scars, solitary or groups of 2 or 3, to 13 cm long, grayish- white tomentose; bracteoles 2, 4 x 4 mm, lobes oblong, rounded at apex, villous, united at base for about 1 mm long; pedicels 3 mm long, villous. Calyx tube 2.5-3 mm long, lobes 4, subequal, larger one 5 x 2.5 mm, oblong, obtuse, villous, others 5 x 2 mm. Petals 5, subequal, white, larger one obovate, acute, 7 x 5 mm, glabrous, others 8 x 3 mm. Stamens 5, filaments 15-17 mm long, sparsely pilose to the middle, anthers oblong, 2 mm long, versatile. Ovary 1.5 mm long, pilose, ovules 3, style 8-10 mm long, glabrous, stigma capitate. Pod 15-17 x 4 cm, oblong, oblique, widening towards apex, beaked, compressed, smooth, glabrous, upper sutures thickened; seeds 1-2, orbicular, c. 3 cm across, brown, glabrous.

Habit: Tree

Flowering & Fruiting: December-April

District(s): Idukki

Medicinal:

Habitat: Evergreen forests

Distribution: Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)

Aquatic: No

Epiphyte(s): No

Saprophyte: No

Stem parasite: No

Root parasite: No

Flower colour(s): White

Weed: No

Monocot/Dicot: Dicotyledonous Plants

Exotic: No

Garden: No

Edible: No

Vegetable: No

Endemic to: Kerala

IUCN status:

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