Family: Dipterocarpaceae
Synonym: Pteranthera chinensis (L.) Blume
Vernacular name: Adakkapine, Cherupiney, Payinipasa
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Along streams of evergreen forests.
Distribution: Asia: India, Sri Lanka.
Flowering and fruiting: March-June
Key identification features: South-Indian Vatica is an evergreen tree, with bark pale green, smooth; exudation resinous. Flowers are bisexual, white, broen in leaf-axils, in spreading panicles. Fruit is a capsule, scaly, nearly spherical shortly pointed with 3 obscure furrows, finely velvet-hairy.
Uses: Wood is durable in moist and water immersions also, used in building construction. Resin used in folk medicine and manufacturing varnishes.
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