Melia dubia Cav.
| Kannada Name : | Hebbevu, Turukubevu, Bettabevu |
| Common Name : | Malabar neem |
| Family Name : | Meliaceae |
| Scientific Name : | Melia dubia |
| Species Type : | Indigenous |
| Phenology : | Evergreen |
| Conservation Status : | Not known |
| Flowering Period : | January - March |
| Fruiting Period : | February - May |
| Origin : | South India |
Uses
The bark is made into a paste with cumin seeds and given to cure fever. It is planted as a shade tree in coffee estates. A paste made out of the green fruits is used to treat scabies and sores.
Description
Large deciduous trees, up to 20 m tall. Bark dark brown, rough, lenticellate, exfoliations rectangular. Young shoots and inflorescence scurfy tomentose. Leaves are 2-3 pinnate, imparipinnate, swollen at base, tomentose when young; pinnae 3-7 pairs; leaflets 2-11 on each pinnae, opposite, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous at maturity, coriaceous, base oblique, acute, obtuse, round or attenuate, apex acuminate, margin crenate. Inflorescence an axillary panicle. Flowers bisexual, greenish-white, pubescent. Fruit a drupe, globose, dosally compressed, longitudinal ridges, yellow when ripe, fleshy, seeds 3 to 4.
