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Flacourtia
jangomas (Lour.) Raeusch.
Synonym : Stigmarota jangomas Lour.
Family
: Flacourtiaceae
Local Names
: Loika, Lavalolikka, Luikka
, Puneala plum
Flowering
and fruiting period:
November – April
Distribution: Widely cultivated in South East Asia and East
Africa
Habitat: Cultivated
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic: No
Uses: Fruits edible, Timber yielding, Jam preparation. The leaves and roots are used to treat
Diarrhoea due to the high tannin content.
Key
Characters:
Small trees, 5-10 m high, dioecious;
bark pale brown to copper-red. Leaves alternate, oblong-ovate to lanceolate.
Flowers in axillary, subcorymbose racemes. Disc faintly lobed, fleshy, white or
orange-yellow. Male flowers: stamens numerous, free, glabrous; anthers
ellipsoid, versatile, extrorse; pistillode absent. Female flowers: ovary
flask-shaped, incompletely 4-6 loculed by false septa; ovules 2 in each locule.
Fruit a berry, subglobose, scarlet red or dark purple when ripe.
