Holigarna arnottiana Hook.f.

 

Family: Anacardiaceae 

Synonym: Katou-tsjeroe arnottianum (Hook.f.) Kuntze

Vernacular name: Chera, Cheru, Charu, Kattuchera, Karinchru

Habit: Tree

Habitat: Semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests, also in the plains

Flowering & Fruiting: January-July

Distribution: Endemic to Southern Western Ghats

Key identification features: A large tree of evergreen and Semi-evergreen forests in low altitude forests. Leaves are simple, obovate, or oblanceolate, leathery with a pair of deciduous spurs on the petiole. Inflorescence is a panicle with a pale golden brown tomentum. Fruit is an elliposoidal drupe, pedicelled, almost entirely included in the torus.

Uses: Antimicrobial