Gluta travancorica

Gluta travancorica (Malayalam: ശെന്തുരുണി; Chenkurinji; Shenduruni; Thodappa) is a species of plant in the family Anacardiaceae.

[2] This species is commonly found in the wet evergreen forests of Southern Kerala, especially Kollam and Trivandrum Districts.

The trees have a 6-8 mm thick bark that is greyish-brown and smooth, with a pink blaze from which acrid, black sap exudes.

The leaf shape is elliptic ovate to obovate or spathulate, with cuneate or attenuate base and blunt or emarginate apex.

[2] The cream-coloured flowers are bisexual, about 8 mm in diameter, and arranged in axillary and terminal panicles, with a spathaceous and deciduous calyx.