Elaeocarpus tuberculatus – Adraksham, Ammakkara, Karamaram, Kara, Kodavasi, Mukkanni, Naggara, Navati, Pilahi, Rudraksham, Thodayam, Vellathaanni-plant

Description

 Trees, to 25 m high, bole buttressed; bark 10-12 mm thick, grey mottled with white, smooth; young stem, buds, petioles and peduncles densely brown villous; branches monopodial. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tip of branchlets, 8-24 x 4-15 cm, obovate, base cuneate or round, apex acute, obtuse or retuse, margin distantly serrate or crenate or subentire, glabrous above, ferruginous pubescent beneath; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, parallel, the margin prominent, intercostae scalariform, slender, prominent, domatia present; petiole 15-30 mm, stout, pubescent, swollen tipped; stipules free, lateral, brown-villous. Flowers bisexual, white, in axillary racemes to 12 cm long; pedicel 2 cm long, deflexed. Sepals 5, lanceolate, tomentose outside, valvate. Petals 5, white, fimbriate, fulvous tomentose inserted round the base of glandular disc. Stamens numerous, inserted between the glands on the disc; anthers thinly tomentose, terminating in long bristle. Ovary superior, subglobose, densely tomentose, placed on raised torus, 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style subulate, tomentose, entire. Fruit a drupe, 3-3.5 × 2.5 cm, oblong or ellipsoid, green, ferrugenous tomentose, stones single, compressed, coarsely tuberculate, 1-2-celled.