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Cassine
paniculata (Wight & Arn.)
Lobr.-Callen
Synonym : Elaeodendron
paniculatum Wight & Arn.
Family
: Celastraceae
Local Names
: Thannimaram
Flowering
and fruiting period:
March – June
Distribution: Indo-Malaysia
Habitat: Shola and evergreen forests
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic:
No
Uses: Bark is given internally in extreme cases of
anemia, as a blood purifier, given as cardiac tonic and as wound healing.
Key
Characters:
Trees, to 20 m high; bark grey, smooth;
blaze red; exudation watery. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; lamina
elliptic-oblong. Flowers bisexual, greenish-yellow, in axillary stout dichasial
corymbose cymes; calyx 5-lobed, lobes unequal, imbricate; petals 5, obovate;
stamens 5; ovary immersed in the disc, conical, 2-5-celled, ovules 2 in each
cell; style short; stigma small. Fruit a drupe.
