Pterospermum rubiginosum Heyne ex Wight & Arn.

എല്ലൂറ്റി

Family : Sterculiaceae

Synonym : No synonyms recorded for this name.

Common Names : Chittilaplavu, Ellooti, Malamthodali

Flowering Period : November – April

Distribution : Western Ghats

Habitat : Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests

Uses : Ayurvedic, timber yielding

Key Characters :

Evergreen trees, to 20 m high, bark brown, flaking off in thin rectangular strips. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, margin entire, glabrous above and densely white tomentose beneath. Flowers bisexual, white, solitary, axillary. Calyx tubular with 5 linear lobes, white silky within. Petals 5, white, linear-oblong. Staminal column adnate to the gynophore. Ovary superior, 5-celled, ovules many in each cell. Fruit a capsule, brown; seeds winged at one end.