Botanical name: Glochidion hohenackeri    Family: Phyllanthaceae (Amla family)
Synonyms: Phyllanthus hohenackeri, Diasperus hohenacheri

Deccan Cheese Tree is an evergreen tree, up to 5 m tall. Branches are round, warty, branchlets angular, fulvous woolly when young, later hairless. Leaves are 2.5-12.0 × 1.5-4.5 cm, alternate, elliptic-oblong, oblique at base, tapering at tip, acumen 0.3-1.0 cm long, hairless above, sparsely hairy on mid-rib and lateral nerves beneath, leathery, above brownish green, below pale when dry; nerves 4-8 pairs; leaf-stalks up to 4 mm, finely velvet-hairy. Flowers are borne fascicled in leaf-axils, unisexual, finely velvet-hairy. Male flower: flower-stalk about 1 cm long, linear; tepals 3+3, yellow, about 3 x 5 mm, inverted-lanceshaped - spoon-shaped; anther 3, filaments fused. Female flower: tepals 6, about 1.5 x 1. 0 mm, inverted-lanceshaped, fused at base, stalkless; ovary spherical, style 4, fused. Fruit is a capsule, 2-5 × 3-7 mm, 8-10- lobed, lobes bilobulate, finely velvet-hairy, pale green, with persistent tepals. Deccan Cheese Tree is found in Peninsular India. Flowering: February-November.

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