Family: Annonaceae
Synonym:
Polyalthia coffeoides
(Thwaites ex Hook.f. & Thomson) Bedd.
Synonym:
Guatteria coffeoides Thw
Vernacular
name:
Nedunarai, Nedunar vila( Malayalam)
Habit:
Tree
Habitat:
Evergreen and semi- evergreen forests
Distribution:
South India and Sri Lanka
Flowering
& Fruiting: May - August
Key
identification features: Subcanopy trees in low and medium
elevation evergreen forests. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous. Flowers
solitary or in clusters on branchlets and on tubercles of trunk, greenish
yellow with red tinge. Fruit aggregate of berries, ovoid, apiculate, dark
purple; seed one, broadly ovoid, grooved, smooth and shiny.
Uses:
Bark and leaves of this plant show effective antimicrobial activity, cytotoxic
function, antiulce. Activities, hypoglycemic activities and hypotensive effect
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