- Family : CAPPARACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Cleomaceae
- Species : Crateva magna
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Crateva religiosa G.Forst.
- Common name : Three-leaved Caper
- Vernacular name : Varuna (San.); Barun, Barna (Hin.); Nirvaala (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : CJS 12612, KFP 354, KFP 6226, KFP 13309
- Key identification features : Densely foliaceous deciduous tree upto 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
- Native : South-east Asia, India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Hassan, Mysore, Shimoga, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
- Floras referred : Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
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