Holigarna arnottiana Hook.
f.
Synonym: Catutsjeron arnottianum(Hook.f.)
Kuntze., Mangifera racemosa Lam.
ANACARDIACEAE
Local Names
: ചേര് (Cheru), കാട്ടുചേര്.
Flowering Period : January to July.
Distribution : Southern Western Ghats
Uses: Anticancer, antiobesity, anti rheumatism, antiinflammatory, ayurvedic.
Exotic : No.
Evergreen
trees, bole buttressed; bark pale brown, rough; exudation milky. Leaves simple,
alternate, crowded at the tips of branchlets,
apex obtusely acute, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire, glabrous.
Flowers polygamous, yellowish-brown , in axillary panicles, tomentum of
inflorescence pale golden brown. Calyx cupular, 5-fid. Petals 5, valvate.
Stamens 5, inserted outside the disc; anthers red, versatile. Ovary inferior,
1-celled, ovule pendulous; styles 3, stigmas capitate. Fruit a drupe.
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