''Palaquium ellipticum'' is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. This is a common canopy tree in low and medium elevation evergreen forests up to 1500 m. This species is endemic to the Western Ghats.

Description

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ed trees, and can grow up to height. Bark is smooth, lenticellate, irregularly flaky when mature and the blaze is reddish brown. Branches are with architecture of "

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"; The young branchlets are terete, puberulent, later it turns glabrous. It has a white and profuse latex. The branchlets are usually 2-3 mm thick, and sympodial. Leaves are alternate, simple, petioles 20-25 mm long, blade 7.5-10 x 3.7-5 cm. Leaf shape could be ovate or obovate, tip is obtuse, blunt, base is narrow, margin entire, and there will be 10-12 pairs of lateral nerves. Leaves are glabrous too. Flowers are bisexual, in axillary fascicles, 10-12 x 10-12 mm length, and the color is white. Fruit is a berry, 3-3.7 x 1-1.6 cm length, ellipsoid shape and, green. One seed per fruit.Gamble, J.S. (James Sykes), 1847-1925. Flora of the Presidency of Madras. London : West, Newman and Adlard, 1915- (OCoLC)610334536

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15346770 ellipticum Endemic flora of the Western Ghats Plants described in 1851 Taxa named by Nicol Alexander Dalzell