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Olea
dioica Roxb.
Synonym : Tetrapilus dioicus
(Roxb.) L.A.S. Johnson
Family
: Oleaceae
Local Names
: Karivetti
Flowering
and fruiting period:
November – April
Distribution: Native to India
Habitat: Semi-evergreen and moist
deciduous forests, also in the plains
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic: Yes
Uses: Avenue plant, remedy
for fever
Key
Characters:
Olea dioica are trees with bark grey
or brown, rough, shallowly vertically grooved. Leaves simple, opposite,
elliptic-oblong or elliptic lanceolate, margin serrate, pink when young.
Flowers polygamo-dioecious, creamy-white, small, in panicles, axillary or from
leafless nodes, male panicles larger and denser than hermaphrodite. Calyx 4 teethed.
Corolla lobes 4, shorter than the tube. Stamens 2, included. Ovary 2-celled,
superior; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe, ellipsoid, blue.
