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Briedelia retusa (L.) A. Juss.
Synonym: Clutia retusa L., Briedelia
spinosa (Roxb.) Willd.
EUPHORBIACEAE
Local Names
: മുള്ളുവേങ്ങ (Mulluvenga).
Flowering Period : August to Spetember.
Distribution : Indo-Malaya
Uses: Ayurvedic, Drought Tolerant.
Exotic : No.
Deciduous trees, bark
greyish-brown; young trees armed with sharp thorns. Leaves simple, alternate,
broadly elliptic, oblong, base round, margin entire, bright green and glabrous.
Flowers unisexual; greenish-yellow, sessile, crowded in dense axillary or
terminal. Male flowers: tepals 10, biseriate, valvate; stamens 5, monadelphous,
anthers oblong; pistillode bifurcate; disc annular. Female flowers: tepals 10,
biseriate, lanceolate, valvate; ovary
half inferior, globose, 2-locular, ovules 2 in each cell; styles 2. Fruit a drupe,
purplish-black.
