Chandada is a resinous tree, to 10 m tall. Young parts are velvet hairy.
Leaves are 20-50 x 12-21 cm, alternately arranged, circular or broadly ovate,
entire or minutely dentate, palmately 9-nerved. Leaf stalk is attached on the lower surface of
the leaf, not on the base. Flowers occur in long panicles in leaf axils; male
minute, numerous, clustered in the axils of large bracts with dentate apex,
5-6 mm long. Petals (rather perianth lobes) 3, stamens 3 ; filaments short ;
anthers 2-celled. Capsule 4-5 mm across, spherical ; 2-valved ; seed 1,
rounded, blackish. Flowering:January-February.
Identification credit: Navendu Pāgé
Photographed at Ratanwadi, Maharashtra.
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