Cipadessa baccifera (Roth) Miq.

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Family : MELIACEAE

Synonym :

Cipadessa fruticosa Blume

Common Names : Kaipanarangi, Potti, Pulippanchedi

Flowering Period : November-July

Distribution : Indo-Malesia

Habitat : Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, also in the sacred groves

Uses : Ethnobotanically important plant and is widely used in folklore medicine for treating a range of maladies including diabetes, dysentery, malaria, rheumatism, piles, head ache, and psoriasis.

Key Characters :

Shrubs to 3 m tall; branchlets tomentose. Leaves odd-pinnate; leaflets 3-5 pairs, opposite, 3-7 x 2-3.5 cm, narrowly oblong to ovate, apex acuminate, base acute or rounded, margins irregularly dentate towards apex,; petiolule to 8 mm long. Panicles axillary, corymbose; peduncle to 7 cm long. Calyx-lobes c. 1 mm long, triangular, spreading, pubescent. Petals 3.5-4 mm long, ovate, cream or c. 3 mm long; stamens 10; anthers yellow. Ovary 5-6-angular, ovules 2 per cell; stigma turbinate. Drupe c. 5 mm across, globose, longitudinally grooved, reddish brown.