- Family : CAPPARACEAE
(CAPER FAMILY)
- Family (as per The Plant List) : Capparaceae
- Species : Crateva magna
- Basionym : Capparis magna Lour.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Crateva religiosa G.Forst.
- Common name : Three-leaved Caper
- Vernacular name : Barun, Barna (Hin.); Nirvaala (Kan.); Ulimidi (Tel.); Varuna, Barun (Ori.); Varuna (San.)
- Key identification features : Densely foliaceous deciduous tree up to 10 m tall. Bark is dark grey in colour, fairly smooth with horizontal wrinkles. Branchlets lenticelled. Wood is yellow-white, close grained. Branchlets greyish-brown when dry. Leaves 3-foliolate, chartaceous, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, pale beneath, base attenuate, margin entire, apex abruptly acuminate. Flowers are greenish white, in dense terminal corymbs. Berry oblong, woody, yellowish-grey. Seeds are numerous embedded in pulp.
- Habit : Tree
- Flower, Fruit : March-August
- Native : India
- Comments : Occasional on hills along water courses.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Hoganekkal R.F. (Dharmapuri district) (Tamil Nadu State); East Godavari district, Visakhapatnam district (Andhra Pradesh State); Boudh district, Puri district, Cuttack district (Odisha State)
- World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indo-China, Malesia, Indonesia
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1 ; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Crateva magna. Downloaded on 4 July 2024.
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