Elaeocarpus tuberculatus, the warty marble tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is native to Andaman Island, Bangladesh, India, Java, and Myanmar.
Description It is a tall tree with buttresses. The bark is smooth and mottled in shades of grey and white.Roxburgh, William. Flora Indica; or Descriptions of Indian Plants. Vol. 2. Serampore: Mission Press, 1832. p. 594. Leaves are simple, alternate, and spirally arranged, clustered near the ends of twigs.Gamble, J. S. Flora of the Presidency of Madras. Vol. 1. Reprinted edition. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India, 1997. p. 124. Flowers are white in axillary racemes. The fruit is a drupe, elliptic-oblong, up to 5 × 3 cm in size. Seeds are solitary, compressed, and deeply tuberculate.Sasidharan, N. Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala: Part 6 – Flowering Plants. Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, 2004. p. 65.Saldanha, Cecil J. Flora of Karnataka. Vol. 1. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., 1996. p. 214.
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