Botanical name: Vateria indica    Family: Dipterocarpaceae (Sal family)

White Damar is a tall tree generally up to 40 m sometimes going up to 60 m. Bark is greyish, smooth; blaze cream. Young branchlets are round, hairy. Branches exude resinous substance. Leaves are simple, alternate, spirallly arranged. Stipules are caducous. Leaf-stalks are 2-3.5 cm, swollen at apex, nearly hairless. Leaves are 8-27 x 4.5-10 cm, elliptic-oblong, tip abruptly long-pointed or blunt, base rounded to somewhat heart-shaped, margin entire, leathery, hairless. Midrib is flat above; secondary nerves 13-20 pairs, curved near margin, impressed above. Flowers are borne in panicles in leaf axils, with dense stellate hairs. Flowers are white, anthers yellow. Capsule is pale brown, 3-valved, oblong, up to 6.4 x 3.8 cm, sepals persistent, reflexed, seed 1. White Damar is endemic to the Western Ghats - South and Central Sahyadris. It is a common canopy to emergent trees in low and medium elevation wet evergreen forests, up to 1200 m.

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