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 Mastixia arborea (Wight) C.B.Clark

Synonym	:	Bursinopetalum arboreum Wight
Family	:	Cornaceae
Local name	:	Malayalam-   Kunthirikkam,
Flowering and fruiting period	:	January - May
Distribution	:	India and Sri Lanka
Distribution in Kerala	:	Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Kozhikkode, Palakkad
Habitat	:	Sub canopy tree in sholas and evergreen forests
Endemic/Exotic	:	Endemic to Southern Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
IUCN Status	:	Least concern
Uses	:	An essential oil isolated from leaf and wood contains many bio active compound.
Key botanical characters:  Trees, outer bark 2-3 mm thick, shallowly fissured with white blotches outside; inner bark 10-15 mm thick; blaze yellow;  Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; Flowers bisexual, yellowish-green, in terminal corymbose rusty tomentose panicles;Fruit a drupe, cylindric-ovoid,  greenish-purple, persistent disc and sepals in conspicuous; seed ellipsoid.