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Manilkara hexandra (Roxb.) Dubard

Synonym: Mimusops hexandra Roxb., Mimusops indica A.

SAPOTACEAE

Local Names : ഖിർനി  മരം , പഴമുന്നിപ്പാല, Khirni tree.

Flowering Period : September to November.

Distribution : Sri Lanka, India, Siam and Indo-China

Uses: Fruits edible, Timber, Ayurvedic, Oil yeilding. 

Exotic : No.

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 Evergreen trees, bark blackish-grey, longitudinally fissured and cracked. Leaves simple, alternate; lamina elliptic; margin entire. Flowers bisexual, white, 1 or 2 axillary; calyx lobes 6, in 2 series of 3 each, reflexed; corolla lobes 18 in 3 series of 6 each, valvate; stamen 6-8, alternating with staminodes; ovary pubescent, 12-celled, superior. Fruit a berry.

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