Filicium decipiens (Wight
& Arn.) Thw.
Synonym: Rhus decipiens Wight
& Arn., Pteridophyllum decipiens (Wight
& Arn.) Thw.
SAPINDACEAE
Local Names
: ഇരുമ്പറക്കി, Fern Tree.
Flowering Period : October to December
Distribution : India and Sri Lanka
Uses: Ornamental, Firewood, Timber yielding.
Exotic : No.
Evergreen
trees, bark blackish or reddish-grey, rough. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate,
estipulate; rachis articulate, broadly winged, swollen at base; leaflets 10-21,
opposite or subopposite, sessile; lamina narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong,
base acute, apex acute, margin entire, wavy. Flowers polygamous, pinkish-white,
in axillary panicles; calyx 5 lobed; lobes imbricate, deciduous; petals 5,
small; stamens 5, free, inserted within the disc; ovary superior; style hooked;
stigma simple, bilobed. Fruit a drupe , ovoid, purple, shining; seed one,
oblong.
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