''Adinandra lasiopetala'' is a species of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

in the Pentaphylacaceae family. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

Uses

Wood - light construction.

Culture

Known as "රට මිහිරිය - rata mihiriya" in Sinhala.

References

Jstor.org: ''Adinandra lasiopetala''Theplantlist.org: ''Adinandra lasiopetala''
lasiopetala Endemic flora of Sri Lanka Trees of Sri Lanka Taxa named by Robert Wight Taxa named by Jacques Denys Choisy {{Pentaphylacaceae-stub