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Heritiera littoralis Dryand.
ex. Aitons
Tree up to 25 m tall with buttressed trunk, evergree, bark grayish, fissured and scaly Leaves simple alternate, coriaceous, elliptic oblong, white beneath with flat scales, petiolate; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Inflorescence loose panicles upto 10 cm long, axillary or terminal Flowers monoecious; clustered in much branched axillary, calyx bell shaped; corolla pinkish fruit oblong, woody, smooth or tubercled. Capsule membranous, inflated, pyriform, loculicidally 3-valved. Fruit greeni to brown in colour, smooth, ridge on outer edge resembles a chicken's comb . Economic Importance : Useful timber and used as medicinal treatment for diarrhoea.
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