Cordia ramanujamii

Cordia ramanujamii is a small tree, growing up to 2.5 m in height. Its branches are smooth and form a dense ramification.

The bark of Cordia ramanujamii is grey-green in colour and smooth. 
The branchlets are slender, lenticellate and the twigs are stellate tomentose.

The leaves of Cordia ramanujamii are simple, growing in an alternate arrangement. 
The leaf petiole is 0.5 to 2 cm long, canaliculate, pubescent when young turning glabrous at maturity. 
The leaves are elliptic-oblanceolate in shape. 
They are 2 to 8 cm long and 1 to 4 cm wide. 
The leaf apex is acute to acuminate, the leaf base is oblique, obtuse. 
The leaf margin differs from its lower part which is entire to the upper part which is distantly serrulate. 
There are 3 nerves at the leaf base and 2 to 4 pairs of lateral nerves. 
The leaves are glabrous on the upper side, scattered pilose hairy on the lower side.

The flowers of Cordia ramanujamii are white inflorescences growing in cymes. 
The inflorescences are 5 to 7 cm long. 
The flowers are 1.7 cm long by 0.8 cm wide. 
The calyx is a leathery tube, rusty tomentose half above. 
The 6 lobes are unequal, 1 mm long, densely brown-silky villous within. 
The corolla can be up to 2 cm long. 
There is 6 unequal stamens, 3 shorter and 3 longer, alternate to each other.

The fruit of Cordia ramanujamii is a globose drupe about 1.7 cm across, seated in a saucer-like enlarged green calyx. 
The mesocarp is sticky mucilagenous. 
The drupe is pale yellow in colour turning black when ripe. 
The fruits are edible.

The seeds of Cordia ramanujamii are less than 1 cm across. 
They are ovate in shape, hard with a pronounced wrinkled surface and light brown in colour.