In India, it is found in Western Ghats and Northeast India
Habitat
It is found in semi-evergreen forests, sacred groves, and scrub forests.
Habit
Deciduous
Small tree
Specific Properties
Ecology
Lychee longhorn beetle feeds on the bark
Larval host plant of Tricoloured Pied-flat butterfly
Uses
Fruits are edible
Green manure
The leaves, fruits, barks, and roots extracts showed antidiarrheal, antimicrobial and insecticidal, anti-inflammation, jaundice-relieving etc.
The dried bark, roots, fruits, leaves of plant are ethnomedicinally used for the treatment of abdominal pain and diarrhoea, sore throat, damp-heat jaundice, fever, heat stroke, and is often served as general tonics and insecticides in traditional medicine.