Family: Moraceae
Habit: Herb
Habitat: Evergreen forests and wet rocky areas in moist deciduous
forests
Distribution: South India and Sri Lanka
Flowering and
fruiting: February-April
Key identification features: These herbs have simple, alternate leaves up to 9
x 2.5 cm, with an obovate or oblanceolate shape and sparsely hairy nerves. The
flowers are monoecious, numerous, and situated on a 5-angled, discoid
receptacle up to 1.5 cm across, with male flowers on the periphery and female
flowers at the center. The fruit is an achene, sunken in the receptacle.
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