{{Short description|Species of tree}} {{Italic title}} {{Speciesbox |name = Large-flowered bay tree |image = Persea macrantha2.jpg |status = |status_system = |status_ref = |genus = Machilus |species = macranthus |authority = Nees |synonyms = ''Persea macrantha'' {{small|(Nees) Kosterm.}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Machilus macranthus'' Nees |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:466212-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=21 May 2025}}</ref> }}
'''''Machilus macranthus''''', the '''large-flowered bay tree''',<ref>[http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Large-Flowered%20Bay%20Tree.html Persea macrantha - Large-Flowered Bay Tree<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> is an evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae), native to India, Sri Lanka, the Himalayas, Myanmar, and western Yunnan in south-central China.<ref name = powo/>
The tree grows in the Western Ghats mountain range of India, and can reach {{convert|30|m|abbr=on}}. Leaves are simple, alternate, spiral; lamina obovate or elliptic to elliptic-oblong; apex rounded or acuminate or acute; base acute to rounded with entire margin.<ref>[http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31616 Persea macrantha (Nees) Kosterm | Species | India Biodiversity Portal<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Flowers show terminal panicle inflorescence. Fruit is a berry which becomes blackish on ripening.<ref>[http://www.biotik.org/india/species/p/persmacr/persmacr_en.html Persea macrantha - LAURACEAE<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
The plant is known to have medicinal properties and used in Ayurveda.<ref>[http://www.toxicologycentre.com/English/plants/Botanical/kulamavu.html Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants Persea macrantha<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626192150/http://www.toxicologycentre.com/English/plants/Botanical/kulamavu.html |date=2015-06-26 }}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=October 2017}} thumbnail|right
==Common names== * Kannada - chittu thandri, gulamaavu, gulimaavu * Malayalam - kulamavu, ooravu * Marathi - gulaamba * Tamil - iruli, kolamavu, kolarmavu * Telugu - naara
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macranthus Category:Flora of Assam (region) Category:Flora of East Himalaya Category:Flora of India (region) Category:Flora of Myanmar Category:Flora of Nepal Category:Flora of Sri Lanka Category:Flora of the Western Ghats Category:Plants described in 1831 Category:Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
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