Family: Combretaceae
Synonym: Buceras bellirica (Gaertn.) Lyons, Myrobalanus bellirica Gaertn.
Vernacular name: Thanni, Thannikka, Thannymathan, Tusham, Adamarutha
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
Distribution: India, Bangladesh, Indo-china, Malay Peninsula, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand
Flowering and Fruiting: December-January
Key identification features: Deciduous trees with leaves simple, opposite or alternate, clustered at the tip of branchlets, estipulate; Flowers bisexual, greenish-yellow, Fruit a drupe obovoid, obscurely 5-ridged, yellowish-brown, honed, not winged, softly tomentose; seed one, ellipsoid.
Uses: Fruits used in tanning. The kernel is chewed with
betel nut as substitute for areca nut. The
paste of bark used to cure paralysis. Wood preferred for fuel.
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