Goniothalamus rhynchantherus Dunn

Habit: Tree

Trees, 5-8 m tall, bark smooth, black. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, estipulate; petiole 6-10 mm long, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 9-22 x 3.5-6.5 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong or ovate, base acute, obtusely acuminate or cuspidate-acuminate, margin entire, recurved, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 12-15 pairs, pinnate, faint, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, axillary, solitary, fragrant, 2.5 cm across; petiole stout, 0.5-1 cm long, glabrous, sepals 3, 8 x 9 mm, broadly ovate, connate at base, acute at apex, appressed golden brown pubescent outside, glabrous inside; petals 6 (3+3), outer petals 2-3 cm long, obovate, adnate to 2/3 from apex, acute, densely silvery white or golden sericeous pubescent outside, glabrous inside except the margin, inner petals smaller, shortly clawed, cohering in a veluted cap over the stamens and ovary; stamens many, closely packed, 1.5-2 mm long, anthers beaked, remote, hidden by the connective, connectives pubescent, produced into a beak; carpels many, awl-shaped, densely pubescent, 2-3 mm long, ribbed, style 3-4 mm long, subulate, stigma pointed, entire, ovules 1 or 2. Fruit agregate, fruitlets many, 15 x 8 mm, obovoid, sometimes constricted, glabrous; seed one, ovoid, shiny, reddish-brown.

Kerala: Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram Tamil Nadu: Tirunelveli

Endemic to Western Ghats- Agasthyamalai hills in South Sahyadri.