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                                                      Calophyllum inophyllum L.

Synonym	:	Balsamaria inophyllum Lour.
Family	:	Clusiaceae
Local name	:	English- Beauty Leaf Malayalam –Punna
Flowering and fruiting period	:	December-January
Distribution	:	Paleotropics
Distribution in kerala	:	Kottayam, Alappuzha, Palakkad, Kasaragode, Kollam, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, Malappuram, Kozhikkode, Thrissur, Ernakulam
Habitat	:	In plains along the banks of rivers and mangrove forests, also planted in the parks and roadsides
Uses	:	Medicinal
Key botanical characters: Tree, to 20 m tall; bark smooth or with boat-shaped fissures, brown to pale grey; exudate milky or yellow; branchlets compressed, slightly flat or 4-angled, glabrous. Leaves broadly elliptic-oblong or obovate, cuneate to rounded at base, slightly recurved and margined, rounded, acute, slightly emarginate, retuse or sub-acute at apex, coriaceous, glabrous; midnerve channelled above; raised beneath. Racemes axillary, 7-12 flowered. Flowers polygamous, white, fragrant; bracts ovate caducous; pedicels glabrous. Sepals 4, reflexed; outer pair ovate to suborbicular, concave, nerved; the inner subelliptic, petaloid, nerved. Petals usually 4, obovate to elliptic or oblong, reflexed, rarely glabrous, nerved. Stamens (175-) 210-360(-440); connate for 1.5 mm into 4-6 bundles, cream coloured; anthers rounded or retuse at apex, 0.7-2 mm long. Drupes globose to obovoid, short apiculate, smooth; stone subglobose, ca 2 cm across.