Psydrax dicoccos Gaertn.

Systematic Classification:

Division	: Angiospermae
Class		: Dicotyledons 
Family		: Rubiaceae						
Genus		: Psydrax
Species  	: dicoccos

Common Name:

Irumbarappan

General Information:

Small to medium sized evergreen trees, bark yellowish-grey, shallowly fissured. Leaves lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, base cuneate, glabrous and glossy, to 10 x 2.5 cm. Flowers 3 mm across in few-flowered, short umbels. Calyx glabrous, shortly 5-lobed. Corolla greenish-yellow, lobes oblong, acute, 1.5 mm long.

Economic Importance:

• Very hard wood used for making handles for agricultural implements.