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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Cordia dichotoma - G. Froster
Family
Boraginaceae
Common Name
Lasora, Indian cherry, Soap berry
Habit
Tree
Synonym
Cordia indica Lam.
Habitat
Planted
Color Of Flower
Dull white
Key Characters
Flowers small; corolla white, calyx not ribbed.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Gamopetalae
 
Series :
Bicarpellatae
 
Order :
Polemoniales
Plant Description

Small crooked tree with drooping, pubescent branches, leaves alternate, thinly coriaceous, elliptic to orbicular, cuneate at base, margin entire, glabrous above, softly pubescent beneath, sub 3-nerved at the base, petioles long; flowers white, unisexual, make , female on same tree, in axillary or terminal, lax corymbose cymes; calyx campanulate, shortly 5 toothed, lobed hairy within; corolla funnel shaped, small, tube short, 4-8 lobed, hairy within; stamens 4-8, filaments hairy at its base, anthers short; ovary glabrous, 4-celled, 1-ovule in each, styles terminal, long, bipartite; stigma with long linear lobes; drupes pale-orange, ovoid or ellipsoid, apiculate, 1-seeded; fruiting calyx striated.

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