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Mesua stylosa (Thwaites) Kosterm.
Scientific Synonyms:

Previous name used in the website: Mesua stylosa
Family name: CALOPHYLLACEAE
English name: Available soon
Sinhala name: Suwanda (සුවඳ)
Honakka (හෝනක්කා)
Tamil name: Available soon
Sanskrit name: Available soon
Conservation status: CR - Critically Endangered - NRL 2020
Description: Tree, up to 5 m high, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate or ovate-oblong, 2.5 X 6 - 3 X 6 - 3 X 9 cm, acuminate, more rarely acute or cuspidate, base rounded; midrib very slender above, prominulous. Flowers in stalked, stiff, erect, axillary, 2 - 4 flowered racemes, near upper part of the branchlets. Fruit for the greater part enveloped by the enlarged, coriaceous, imbricate, depressed-globose sepals. Seeds 1 - 4, large, angular, dark red brown.
Native Distribution Status: Endemic
Edible parts: Available soon
Treatment for: Available soon
Parts used in Treatment: Available soon
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