Antidesma khasianum Hook.f.

Flowering: April - July Fruiting: October - November

Flower: July & fruit ripen : October - November

It is a shrub with sparsely pubescent young shoots. Leaves 2-6 inch. long, bifarious, oblong-elliptic, acuminate, entire, dark green. Male raceme slender, female much stouter. Fruit sub-globose or ellipsoid, seed stone strongly reticulated

nearly glabrous, leaves sub sessile 3-6 in. from elliptic lanceolate to narrowly oblong-lanceolate acuminate or caudate midrib above glabrous, male racemes short slender solitary or panicled, male fl. pedicelled, calyx cupular shortly 3-4-lobed, stamens 2-4 inserted on the tumid glabrous entire or lobed disk, ovary glabrous, fruit j in. long gibbously orbicular or elliptic acute, stigmas terminal or sub-terminal. Branches with whitish bark; branchletis sparingly pubescent. Leaves very variable, smaller 2-3 in. and elliptic, larger 5-7 in. and lanceolate or linear oblong, greenish when dry, base acute; nerves arched, slender; petiole 1/8-1/6 in. ; stipules narrow, lanceolate. Racemes much shorter and with shorter pedicels than in A. acuminatum ; peduncle with lanceolate stipular bracts ; floral bracts ovate. Male fl. glabrous. Disk is sometimes exserted, and hardly lobed ; pistillode small. Fruit large, tipped by the 2-3 rigid. bases of the stigmas. The glabrous midrib of the upper surface of the leaf, short racemes and pedicels, and cupular shortly lobed calyx distinguish this from A. acuminatum, and the narrow leaves and not tomentose branches and terminal stigmas from A. assamicum, of which it has the simple female racemes and large oblique fruit.

A. acuminatum A. assamicum

Forested areas

Found in flood plains of Brahmaputra valley

Terrestrial: primary forests, between 1000 and 1500 masl

India, Bangladesh

Global Endemicity

India, Bangladesh

Fruits are eaten. It is generally found during harvesting time of paddy