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Bridelia retusa

Scientific Name
Bridelia retusa
Family Name
Euphorbiaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Keta kela (Sri Lanka)
Description
A small Irce with a smooth, pale yellowish-grey bark and rusty-pubescent young twigwith leaves simple, alternate, numerous. 8 7-II .2cm long. oblong-oval. usuallyrounded at hase; very obtuse or rounded at apex often emarginate, entire; lateral veins16-20 pair;,, strong. parallel, uniting with a transparent marginal vein and connectedby numerous fine transverse veinlels, glabrous and brighl green above, whitish withminute pubescence beneathi rather thick; petioles short, stout, finely pubescent;stipules lanceolate with a broad base, very acuminate, pubescent, deciduous; flowersregular, unisexual, green tinged with red wilh a purple disc, monoecious (ordioecious) on very short pedicels in small dense clusters on spicale or rarefy branched, axillary inflorescences exceeding the leaves; male flowers: 4mm diameter; sepals 5, valvale, narrowly triangular, acute, spreading; petals 5. inserted on the calyx, much smaller, deeply pectinate, disc conspicuous, annular, pulpy; stamens 5. filament 1 united below into a column, distinct and spreading above: female flowers:smaller, calyx as in male; petals 5, persistent, spathufate, acute, not pectinate; disc truncate tubular enclosing the ovary; ovary superior, 2-locular with two ovules in each chamber, styles 2, short anc! forked; fruit a drupe with 2 one-seeded pyrenes on persistent calyx and petals, about 8mm diameter, globose, slightly pulpy and purplish-black.Flowers during June and July (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Astringent, rheumatism (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Ritigala, Meegahak, Pinna, Haldummu,Pattipola, Ganewatta
Remarks
Bridelia retusa (IPNI)

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