Antidesma bhargavae Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 26: 524, t. 1. 2002.

Shrubs or trees, 3 – 8 m tall; branchlets tomentose or hirtellous, glabrous in age. Leaves obovate, obovate-elliptic to oblanceolate, rounded, acute or subacute at base, apiculate to acuminate or acute-mucronate at apex, 5 – 10 x 3 – 5 cm, chartaceous, pilose on major nerves and scabrid to glabrous elsewhere above, tomentellous on major nerves and scattered pilose elsewhere beneath; lateral nerves 5 – 7 pairs; petioles 2 – 4 x 1 – 1.5 mm, tomentose. Inflorescences cauliflorous, on leafless branches and main trunk, racemiform, arising singly, 2 or 3 together, 3 – 6 cm long, simple or once branched, tomentellous; bracts ovate-lanceolate, ca 1 mm long. Flowers: not seen. Fruits broadly oblong-ellipsoid or slightly oblique, somewhat compressed, 5 – 6 x 3.5 – 4 mm, glabrous, alveolate, 1-seeded; styles 3, terminal or subterminal, ca 1 mm long, shortly connate at base, bifid at apex; fruiting pedicels ca 2 x 0.2 mm.

Fr. June – July.

Distrib. India: Scarce in shaded places of inland forests on sandy or clayey loam up to 100 m altitude. Andaman & Nicobar Islands (South Andaman Island).

Endemic.