Swietenia macrophylla King
മഹാഗണി
| Family: | MELIACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Mahagony | ||||
| Synonym: | Swietenia belizensis Lundell | ||||
| Common Name: | Manthagani | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | April - March | ||||
| Distribution: | Native of Central America | ||||
| Habitat: | Grown as avenue tree, also raised in plantations | ||||
| Uses: | Timber yielding. The bark is astringent, bitter and febrifuge. An infusion is used to treat diarrhoea and fevers. | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Mahagony are deciduous trees; bark brown. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; leaflets opposite or subopposite; lamina, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, shining above, dull beneath. Flowers bisexual, pale yellow; calyx lobes 5, lobes; petals 5, oblong; staminal tube apically 10-lobed; stamens 10; ovary superior, 5-celled, ovules many. Fruit a capsule, oblong-globose, 5-valved, woody, rusty outside; seeds many, winged. | ||||