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Mesua thwaitesii Planch. & Triana

Synonym: Mesua ferrea L. var. thwaitesii.

CLUSIACEAE

Local Names : നങ്. Nangu.

Flowering Period : February to December.

Distribution : South India and Sri Lanka

Uses:   Ayurvedic

Exotic : No.

 Glabrous trees, bark dark brown, smooth. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; lamina linear-oblong, margin entire. Flowers bisexual, rose-coloured, showy, sessile in terminal cymes; sepals 4; petals 4; stamens numerous, polyadelphous; ovary superior, 2-loculed, ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a capsule, obovoid-globose, woody.

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