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 Flacourtia ramontchi L'Herit.

Family	:	Flacourtiaceae
Local name	:	Malayalam- Kodumundi
Flowering and fruiting period	:	February-June
Distribution	:	Indo-Malesia to Madagascar.
Distribution in kerala	:	Idukki, Palakkad, Pathanamthitta, Wayanad
Habitat	:	Deciduous forests and scrub jungles
Uses	:	Medicinal
Key Botanical Characters.  Large shrub to small trees, branchlets terete, pubescent, bark whitish. Leaves to 6 x 4.5 cm, ovate-elliptic, chartaceous, 3-nerved from slightly above the base, crenate; petioles 1.5 cm, pubescent. Flowers yellow, 4 mm across; stamens many, disc extra-staminal, glandular, pistillode absent.