A large, deciduous tree up to 20 m in height, with a large, spreading crown and clear straight bole. Bark dark brown, exfoliating in small round woody peels, reddish inside, softly fibrous with faint streaks of white latex, milky juice copious; leaves 13-37 cm x 6-21 cm, elliptic, oblong or ovate, base broadly cuneate, pinnatifid; inflorescences solitary, axillary, male head ellipsoid, perianth of 2 (or 3) free segments, bracts stoutly stalked, female heads with style exerted to 1.0-1.5 mm, through low papillae emerging between peltate bracts; syncarp 6-12 cm long, sub-globose, shallowly lobed, yellow drying brown, surface irregularly papillate, pubescent, with numerous persistent bracts; fruiting perianths several, fleshy, peduncle short pubescent; seeds (pericarp with a thin horny endocarp) 10 x 6 mm.

Vermifuge.

Lakoocha: A Multipurpose Tree of Warm Climate

ß-sitosterol, cycloartenol, cycloartenone, a-amyrin acetate and lupeol acetate (bark); oxyresveratrol (heart wood).

Taeniasis, a tonic for the liver (fruit pulp)

Sharma PV. Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.