Meda is a small tree up to 18 m tall, with a straight to crooked trunk, up
to 60 cm in diameter. Bark is longitudinally fissured, dark greyish, inner
bark brown mottled. Alternately arranged elliptic leaves, 4.5-17 cm x
2.5-10 cm, are pointed or blunt, smooth above, sparsely hairy below. The
midrib is sunken above, with 6-13 pairs of secondary veins which are
sunken above. Leaf stalk is about 1-2.5 cm long. Yellow flowers are borne
in stalked umbellets in short racemes, with 6 tepals and 9-12 stamens.
Fruit is oblong to ellipsoid, 0.7-1.2 cm long, seated on a small flat
perianth cup. Flowering: March-May.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Imphal, Manipur.
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