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Ochna lanceolata
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Ochna lanceolata

Ochna lanceolata is a species of plant in the family Ochnaceae. It is native to India and Sri Lanka.

It is an 8m tall plant with greyish bark and reddish blaze. Leaves are simple, alternate; lamina narrow elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate; apex acute; base acute with serrate margin. Flowers show raceme inflorescence. Fruit is a single-seeded drupe. The tree is known as bo kera/mal kera in Sinhala language.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 909993.