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Family: Flacourtiaceae	Genus: Xylosma	Species: Xylosma longifolia Clos( डंढल, कटारी )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Xylosma congesta var. kwangtungensis F.P. Metcalf, Xylosma racemosa var. kwangtungensis (F.P. Metcalf) Rehder	Flower Color	Greenish
Common Name	Dandal, Katari, Kandhara	Flower Type	Raceme
English / Trade Name	Brushhollies xylosmas	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Dandal	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	1000-1600 m	Fruit Type	Berry
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Berry red when ripe, drying black, globose; seeds 4 or 5, brown when dried, ovoid, flattened on one or more sides.
Habitat	Evergreen forests	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Southern Western Ghats	Bark Details	bark gray-brown; branchlets spiny, glabrous.
Distribution in Haryana	Morni-Pinjore	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Elliptic
Description of Species	Small trees, up to 7 m tall; bark gray-brown. Leaves green; petiole glabrous; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, oblong-elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, base acute, margin serrate, apex acuminate. Flower greenish in short racemes or reduced panicles borne singly or in condensed clusters in leaf axils; bracts ovate (staminate flowers) to lanceolate (pistillate flowers), glabrous or sparsely puberulous. Sepals 4 or 5, persistent, ovate or lanceolate; staminate flowers: stamen filaments eventually. anthers ellipsoid, minute; disk glands small. Pistillate flowers: disk annular or few lobed, ovary ovoid. Fruit a berry red when ripe, drying black, globose; seeds 4 or 5, brown when dried, ovoid, flattened on one or more sides.	Leaf Details	Leaves green; petiole glabrous; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, oblong-elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, base acute, margin serrate, apex acuminate.

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