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Margaritaria indica (Dalzell) Airy Shaw
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Previous name used in the website: Margaritaria indicus
Family name: PHYLLANTHACEAE
English name: Available soon
Sinhala name: Maha karawu (මහ කරවු)
Karawu (කරවු)
Tamil name: Available soon
Sanskrit name: Available soon
Conservation status: LC - Least Concerned - NRL - 2020
Description: Large, glabrous trees up to 25 m tall. Leaf leaf blade thinly papery, elliptic, elliptic-ovate, or oblong-lanceolate, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded, usually pale gray abaxially. Male flowers axillary, several in clusters, female flowers 1-3, axillary; Capsules subglobose or depressed globose, 3-furrowed, 7-12 mm in diam., at maturity dehiscent into 3 2-valved cocci or breaking up irregularly into cocci when dry, endococci papery. Seeds flabellate-trigonous, 3.5-6 ?? 2.7-6 mm, with thickened, blue or bluish, shiny testa; endotesta rugose or furrowed on back.
Native Distribution Status: Native
Edible parts: Available soon
Treatment for: Available soon
Parts used in Treatment: Available soon
Related Medical Properties: Available soon
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