Family: Euphorbiaceae
Synonym: Andrachne apetala Roxb. ex Benth., Andrachne trifoliata Roxb.
Vernacular name: Cholavenga, Chorakkali,
Miachethayan, Nannalamaram, Neeli, Nira,
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Evergreen and semi-Evergreen
forests
Distribution: India, Myanmar, China, Malaysia,
Polynesia
Flowering and Fruiting: March-December
Key identification features: Deciduous trees with brown, thin, and scaly bark. Their leaves are
3-foliate, alternate. The leaves
are glabrous and membranous. The unisexual green flowers grow in axillary and
lateral peduncled paniculate racemes. The fruit is a reddish-brown, globose
berry containing 3 seeds.
Uses: Fruits eaten in
Borneo (Sarawak); wood used as firewood in New Guinea and for fencing (grows!)
in the Solomon Islands; in the latter the squeezed bark or the latex is used as
a brown or black dye.
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