Claoxylon beddomei Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 413. 1887; Susila & N.P Balakr. in Rheedea 5(2): 128, f. 5. 1995. Micrococca beddomei (Hook.f.) Prain in Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 25: 630. 1911; Gamble, Fl. Madras 2(7): 1328. 1921 (repr. ed. 2: 929. 1957).

Shrubs, dioecious, 2 - 3 m high; young shoots hispid. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, cuneate or narrow-rounded at base, acuminate at apex, coarsely dentate, serrate to entire along margins, 5 - 18 x 2 - 5 cm, coriaceous or membranous, glabrous or pilose; lateral nerves 8 - 12 pairs; petioles 2 - 7 cm long; stipules subulate, up to 0.5 mm long. Racemes axillary, 3 - 15 cm long. Male flowers: 3 - 5 mm across; pedicels 3 - 7 mm long, sparsely pubescent; calyx lobes 3, ovate, 2 - 3 mm across, finely hairy; stamens 5 - 12 or 15 - 20, filaments minute; anthers linear; glands extra-staminal. Female flowers: 4 - 5 mm long, solitary; pedicels 1 - 1.2 cm long; sepals 3, ovate to suborbicular 2 - 4 mm across; ovary 3-loculed, ca 3 mm across, subglabrous; ligule scales 3, attached to ovary; styles 1 - 2 mm long. Fruits trilobed, 8 - 10 mm across, glabrous or strigosehispid; seeds globose, 3 - 4 mm across, deeply foveolate.

Fl. & Fr. June - Nov.

Distrib. India: Common in hill slopes, in estates, along roadsides in forests and other shaded places, between 700 - 1100 m altitudes. Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Endemic.

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