Glochidion johnstonei Hook. f. (EUPHORBIACEAE)
Description: The trees can reach heights of up to 12 meters, with tomentose branchlets. The leaves are arranged alternately, oblong, elliptic-oblong, or ovate-elliptic in shape, nearly equal and rounded at the base, broadly acute at the apex, and exhibit a pubescent underside, turning dark brown when dry. Flowers in axillary clusters; male flowers pedicelled, female sessile. Perianth 5-6 in male, 4-6-lobed or toothed in female. Anthers 3, connate by their connectives in a column. Ovary hairy; style depressed-subglobose. Capsules depressed-globose, pubescent, crowned by the persistent hairy style.
Flowering & Fruiting: November – May.
Distribution: India: In moist forests of Western Ghats and West Coast. Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala. Endemic.