Strychnos potatorum L.f.
- Family: Loganiaceae
- Vernacular names: Thettamaram , തേറ്റമരം (Malayalam), Clearing nut tree (English),
- Distribution: Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
- Description: Trees, to 12 m high, bark 10-12 mm thick, brownish-black, rough, corky. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulat. Flowers bisexual, white, in short axillary cymes. Fruit a berry, 16-18 mm across, globose, black, pericarp hard; seeds 1-2, 10-12 mm across, turgid, round, compressed, yellowish.
- Habit: Tree
- Habitat: Dry deciduous forests
- Flowering & Fruiting: March-May
- Parts used: Fruits
- Properties & Uses: They are used in the treatment of gonorrhea, leukorrhea leukorrhea, gastropathy, bronchitis, chronic diarrhea, dysentery, renal and vesicle calculi, diabetes, conjunctivitis, scleritis, ulcers and other eye disease.
- Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk,
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