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Memecylon subramanii
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Family:
MELASTOMATACEAE
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Citation: Memecylon subramanii Henry, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 77: 492. 1980; Mohanan et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 25: 337. 2001.
Memecylon hookeri sensu Henry & Subram., Bull. Bot. Surv. India 13: 165. 1971, non Thw. 1859.
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Description:
Erect shrubs to small trees, 2-4 m tall, sparingly branched; bark grey, flaking off into small pieces; branchlets stout, stongly 4-angled with narrow wings on the angles. Leaves opposite, 20-40 x 6.5-14 cm, sessile or subsessile, lanceate, coriaceous, glabrous, acuminate at apex, cordate at base, penninerved, veins prominent beneath, lateral veins numerous, joining an intramarginal vein. Flowers 6-7 mm across, bluish-violet, clustered in axillary or from leaf scars on old wood, branched cymes; peduncles 6-10 cm long, 4-angled with narrow wings on angles; pedicels 6-9 mm long, slender. Berries 9-10 mm across, globose, crowned by calyx-limb, blackish-purple when ripe.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-January
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Blue, Violet
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
-950
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