Excoecaria oppositifolia crenulata (Wight) Chakrab. & M.Gangop.

Habit: Shrub/Tree

Trees, upto 8 m high; branchlets 3-7 mm thick, flattened or angled when young, terete in age, brown. Leaves simple, opposite; stipules minute, inter petiolar, 15 mm long, lanceolate; petiole 5-30 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 8-20 x 2-4.5 cm, oblong-lanceolate, oblanceolate, elliptic or obovate, base acute or obtuse, apex acuminate, apiculate or subacute, margins shallowly crenate-serrate, dentate or entire, coriaceous, glabrous, glossy above; lateral nerves, 10-22 pairs, slender, parallel, prominent; intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellowish-green; bracteoles with large glands on either side; male flowers: in terminal and axillary 3.5-18 cm long spikes; bracts 1.5-2 x 0.8-2 mm, broadly ovate, deltoid, triangular, suborbicular or flabellate, denticulate to entire; tepals 3, 1-1.5 x 0.8-1.3 mm, broadly ovate, ovate-oblong or suborbicular, dentate or erose or occasionally subentire; stamens 2-3, 1.5-2 mm long, anthers 0.5-1 mm across, basifixed; female flowers: in axillary or terminal 1-3 flowered clusters; bracts 1-2 x 1-2.5 mm, broadly triangular to deltoid or suborbicular, entire to erose; pedicel 1-5 mm long; tepals 3, 2-3.5 x 1.5-3 mm, broadly ovate to triangular, lanceolate to entire; ovary superior, 1.5-2 mm across, subglobose, 3-celled, ovules 1 in each cell; styles 3, 3-7 mm long, simple or occasionally shortly bifid above; basal column 1-2 mm long. Fruit a capsule 1-3 cm across, somewhat depressed, shallowly or sometimes deeply 3 lobed, seeds globose.

Peninsular India and Sri Lanka; in the Western Ghats- South and Central Sahyadris.

Kerala: Idukki, Kannur,Malapuram, Palakkad Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dindigul , Nilgiri, Tirunelveli, Vellore, Virudhunagar