Botanical name: Connarus wightii    Family: Connaraceae (Zebrawood family)
Synonyms: Connarus ritchiei, Rourea sclerocarpa

Konkan Zebrawood is a large climbing shrub. Leaflets are 15 x 5 cm, elliptic-oblong, abruptly tapering, rounded at base; nerves 5 or 6 pairs, netveined; leaf-stalk 6 mm long, transversally rugose. Flowers are borne in panicles 18 x 12 cm, in leaf-axils on old branches, rusty hairy. Flowers are nearly stalkless, few-together; petals 4.5 x 1.5 mm, inverted-lanceshaped, downy outside; filaments unequal; fertile one 2 mm long; sepals 2.5 mm long, bristly; ovary densely hairy. Seedpods are bright red, turning brown, seeds compressed, shining black. Konkan Zebrawood is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.

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