Family: Euphorbiaceae
Synonym: Pierardia courtallensis Wight, Baccaurea macrostachya Wight ex Hook.f.
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Evergreen and semi evergreen forests
Distribution: Peninsular India (Western)
Flowering & Fruiting: January-June
Key identification features: Remarkable for their flowers growing in long racemose spikes in tufts on tubercles on the stem. Leaves alternate, often clustered towards the branch tips. Bark white. Flowers dioecious, in densely clustered, slender racemes. Fruit capsule, globose, tomentose, red. Fruit very acidic and edible. Seeds 3, oblong, arillate.
Uses: Fruit edible
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