Nakshatra Vanam

These are deciduous trees, to 20 m high, bark 6 – 8 mm, pale brown, vertically shallowly grooved, exfoliating in small rectangular flakes; blaze yellowish-brown; bole straight; branches horizontal. Leaves opposite, decussate; stipules interpetiolar, lanceolate, cauducous; petiole 20 – 45 mm, stout, glabrous; lamina 10 – 25 x 6 – 12 cm, ovate or elliptic-oblong, base truncate or obtuse, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; lateral nerves 10-14 pairs, pinnate, prominent; inter-costae scalar form, prominent. Flowers bisexual, yellowish, in globose heads, 2 – 4.5 cm across; calyx tube 2-3 mm in diameter, tube globose, lobes 5, 5 – 6 x 3 – 4 mm, membranous; corolla tube 6-8 mm long, lobes 5, oblong, acute, 3 – 4 cm long, glabrous; stamens 5, 3 mm long, anthers sagittate, sessile; ovary 3 – 4 mm long, 2-celled at base, 4-celled above, inferior, ovules many; style exserted to 5 – 6 mm, entire; stigma clavate. Fruit a capsule on a fleshy globose receptacle, 3.5 – 5 cm across, orange yellow, capsule membranous; seeds may, angular, minute (India Biodiversity Portal).

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