Nothopegia racemosa

Description: Small trees, up to 7 m tall; branches glabrous. Leaves variable in shape, obovate, oblanceolate, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, 15-19×4-5.5 cm, acute or cuneate at base, abruptly acuminate at apex, puberulous beneath, coriaceous; main nerves about 24 pairs; petioles 1.5 – 2 cm long. Flowers in 2 – 4 cm long rusty pubescent axillary recemes, polygamous. Calyx 4-lobed. Petals 4. Male flowers ca 1 mm across. Stamens 4. Disc 4-lobed. Bisexual flowers are approximately 2 mm across, with 4 stamens. The ovary is sessile, and the stigma is obscurely 3-lobed. The fruit is a subconic oval drupe, measuring about 3 mm in diameter and compressed. It contains a solitary seed.

Flowering & Fruiting: November – March.

Distribution: India: Western Ghats, ascending up to 1650 m. Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Sri Lanka.

Uses: The fruit is edible. The wood is used as timber.