Deciduous trees, to 35 m high, bole often buttressed; bark 10-20 mm thick, surface blackish-grey, smooth, vertically shallowly fissured, exfoliations small, semi-fibrous; blaze yellow; branches sympodial; branchlets terete, thinly fulvous-hairy, leaf scars prominent. Leaves simple, opposite or alternate. Flowers bisexual, greenish-yellow, 5-6 mm across, in axillary spikes.Fruit  obovoid, obscurely 5-ridged, yellowish-brown, honed, not winged, softly tomentose; seed one, ellipsoid.

English -Bedda nut tree

Hindi -Bahera

Kannada -Behara

Malayalam -Thani

Tamil -Akkam

• The fruits have laxative, astringent, anthelmintic and antipyretic properties.
• System of medicines used in Folk medicine.
• The paste of bark used to cure paralysis. 
• Used in Ayurveda against various disorders like hepatitis, bronchitis, asthma, dyspepsia, piles, diarrhea, coughs, eye disease.