Celtis philippensis wightii (Planch.) E. Soepadmo

Habit: Tree

Trees, to 25 m high, bark pale green or grey with black streaks inside, covered with lenticels; blaze speckled with black and yellow; branchlets pubescent. Young foliage pink. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, elliptic-ovate; petiole 4-15 mm, slender, pubescent; lamina 6-12 x 2-6 cm, ovate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base round or acute, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; 3-nerved from the base, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers polygamous, yellow, in axillary puberulous cymes, usually on new shoots; male flowers usually at the basal part and female flowers on the upper side; tepals 5, 2 x 1 mm, ovate, concave, ciliate, membranous; stamens 5, free, inserted round a woolly torus; ovary superior, sessile, ovoid, 1 mm, 1-celled; style 8 mm long, pubescent. Fruit a drupe 7 x 5 mm, ovoid, smooth.

Habit: Densely foliaceous, medium-sized tree, upto 15m.

Karnataka: Hassan Kerala: Idukki, Kollam, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur Tamil Nadu: Dindigul, Theni, Tiruvannamalai

Found in deciduous and semi-evergreen forests from plains to 1200m. Common. Tropical Africa to Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China and Malesia to N.Australia.