Glochidion ellipticum Wight (EUPHORBIACEAE)
Description: Trees, up to 10 m tall; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, up to 14 x 4.5 cm, unequal at base, acuminate at both ends, turning black when dry. Flowers in axillary clusters; male flowers pedicelled, female sessile. Perianth lobes 6. Three stamens are fused into a column by their connectives. The ovary has five locules and is densely hairy, while the style is conical. The capsules are depressed globes, measuring approximately 1 cm across.
Flowering & Fruiting: September- March
Distribution: India: In evergreen forests of Western Ghats, up to 1200 m. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Endemic.