Baccaurea courtallensis (Wight) Muell.-Arg.
മൂട്ടിപ്പഴം
| Family: | EUPHORBIACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Not available | ||||
| Synonym: | Pierardia courtallensis Wight. | ||||
| Common Name: | Mootikaya, Mootippuli, Mootilthoori | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | January - June | ||||
| Distribution: | Peninsular India | ||||
| Habitat: | Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests | ||||
| Uses: | Fruits edible, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial. | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Evergreen trees to 15 m high; bark greyish-yellow. Leaves simple, alternate, margin entire. Flowers unisexual, dark crimson, in densely clustered slender racemes on mature stem. Male flowers: bracts lanceolate; tepals 4-5, linear, oblong, elliptic; stamens 4-8, free; anthers basifixed. Female flowers: bracts lanceolate; tepals 4-5, linear, oblong; ovary superior, ovoid, 3-locular; stigmas 3. Fruit a capsule, ovoid, pink-red when ripe, brown when dry. | ||||