Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.
| Kannada Name : | Amani putranjiva |
| Common Name : | Putranjiva |
| Family Name : | Putranjivaceae |
| Scientific Name : | Putranjiva roxburghii |
| Species Type : | Indigenous |
| Phenology : | Evergreen |
| Conservation Status : | Not known |
| Flowering Period : | March - August |
| Fruiting Period : | March - August |
| Origin : | Southeast Asia, Indian subcontinent, South China |
Uses
A decoction of leaves and fruit is taken for the treatment of liver complaints, colds, fevers and rheumatism.
Description
Evergreen trees, up to 20 m high, bark dark grey, whitish when young with horizontal lenticels; branches generally pendent; branchlets terete, brown or blackish, slender, pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, elliptic-oblong, glabrous, dark green, shining, coriaceous, base oblique, apex shortly acuminate, acute or obtuse with retuse tip; margin serrate or serrulate. Male inflorescence an axillary spike, female flowers solitary. Flowers unisexual, small, yellow; Fruit a drupe, ovoid-ellipsoid, white tomentose; seed one, crustaceous; pedicels 6-25 mm long.
