Calophyllum calaba-Aattupunna, Cherupunna, Manjapunna, Porapunna, Punna Poon spar of Travancore-plant

Description

Trees, to 20 m high, bark 15-18 mm thick, surface yellowish-brown, reddish-brown inside rough, deeply fissured; branchlets slender, quadrangular, finely, minutely tomentellous to almost glabrous. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, 5-11 x 3-5 cm, obovate, ovate-oblong or oblong, apex retuse or obtuse, base acute, cuneate, cuneate-subacute or cuneate-round, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves many, parallel, very close, slender, prominent, intercostae obscure ; petiole 4-12 mm long, stout, minutely tomentellous, glabrescent or glabrous, canaliculated above. Flowers bisexual, white, 10-12 mm across, in axillary panicles; peduncle densely rusty pubescent, 5 10 mm long, slender; pedicels 5-20 mm long, with small deciduous bracts at the base, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Sepals 4, white, 8 x 5 mm oblong or obovate, concave, sometimes slightly pilose outside, inner ones thinner, narrower, up to 7 mm long. Petals absent. Stamens numerous, filaments 4-6 mm long, slender; anthers large. Ovary superior, globose, 1-celled, ovule 1, erect; style slender, 3 m long; stigma peltate, concave. Fruit a drupe, 10-12 mm, ovoid, bright orange or yellowish-orange; pericarp thin, pleasantly sweet, edible; seed ovoid to ellipsoid, pale brown.

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