Maytenus rothiana (Walp.) Labreau – Callen (CELASTRCEAE)
Description: Shrubs or small trees 6-8 m tall, sometimes armed. Leaves alternate, ovate or ovate-elliptic or obovate, up to 16 x 9 cm, cuneate at base, obtuse or acuminate at apex, margins crenulate. Flowers in short peduncled or subsessile cymes or fascicled on tubercles of branches, greenish white. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 5. There are 5 stamens, and the disc is sinuate-lobed. The ovary is partly immersed in the disc. The fruit is a capsule, obovoid, 3-lobed, approximately 1.2 cm long, and has 3 locules. There are 6 seeds that are ellipsoid, with an aril near the base.
Flowering & Fruiting: April – September.
Distribution: India: Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka. In the Western Ghats in moist forests.
