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Family: Euphorbiaceae	Genus: Putranjiva	Species: Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Cyclostemon racemosus Zipp. Ex Span. , Drypetes roxburghii (Wall.) Hurus.	Flower Color	Yellow - Orange
Common Name	Putranjiva	Flower Type	Raceme
English / Trade Name	Officinal Drypetes	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Putranjiva, Jai Putra	Fruiting Period	April-June
Altitude	Up To 750 M	Fruit Type	Drupe
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Drupe obovoid or ellipsoid, 1.5-1.8 cm long, hoary-tomentose, apiculate, with hard 1-celled and 1-seeded endocarp.
Habitat	Moist And Dry Deciduous Forests Also In Sacred Groves	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Throughout Tropical India, Wild And Cultivated. Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indo-China, Java, Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Isls., East New Guinea	Bark Details	Bark dark grey, whitish when young with horizontal lenticels
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Butterfly Park , Patiala-ki-Rao Reserved Forest, Sukhna Choe Reserve Forest & Sukhna Lake , Sector 15, Sector 31, Sector 46	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Elliptic
Description of Species	Large or moderate-sized tree.bark dark grey. Leaves bifarious, oblong, broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-10.5 x 1.2-5 cm, margin wavy, serrulate or shallowly distantly crenulate, obtuse or rounded (or shortly acuminate) .p etiole 5-12 mm, pubescent or tomentose. stipules minute, caducous. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, males numerous, clustered axillary or on leafless axillary shoots and on previous years wood, females long-peduncled, usually solitary axillary, Pedicels pubescent. Male flowers yellow, 2.5 m across. Tepals 3-6, lanceolate or linear-oblong, ciliate. Stamens 2-4, central, filaments more or less connate below. Disc 0. Female flowers green, 4 mm across. Tepals oblong, wider upwards and toothed, 1.2-1.8 mm long. Ovary 2-3-celled.styles 2-3, stigmatiferous, dilated, papillose. drupe obovoid or ellipsoid, 1.5-1.8 cm long, hoary-tomentose, apiculate, with hard 1-celled and 1-seeded endocarp.	Leaf Details	Leaves bifarious, oblong, broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-10.5 x 1.2-5 cm, margin wavy, serrulate or shallowly distantly crenulate, obtuse or rounded (or shortly acuminate) .p etiole 5-12 mm, pubescent or tomentose. stipules minute, caducous.

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