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Memecylon rostratum
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Family:
MELASTOMATACEAE
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Citation: Memecylon rostratum Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 111. 1859; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 562. 1879; Murugan & Gopalan, Indian J. Forestry 29: 106. 2006.
Memecylon elegantulum Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 112. 1859; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 555. 1879.
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Description:
Shrubs or small trees; branchlets subquadrangular. Leaves decussate, 5-8 x 3-4 cm, elliptic-ovate, thin coriaceous, glabrous, cuneate at base, caudate-acuminate at apex, margin not revolute; nerves and intramarginal nerves indistinct; petioles 3-5 mm long, canaliculate above, hemispherical below. Inflorescence axillary/lateral, branched umbellate cymes, up to 1 cm long; peduncles terete, ca 0.5 mm long. Flowers ca 5 mm across, 4-merous; pedicels 1-2 mm long; bracts minute, caducous. Calyx tube cupular, ca 2 mm long; lobes indistinct. Petals 4, blue-purple, ovate-orbicular, ca 1.5 x 1 mm, minutely clawed at base, margin revolute, acute at apex. Disc ray obscure. Stamens 8, incurved in bud; filaments ca 3 mm long; anther lobes oblong, ca 1 mm long, sparsely papillose, unilocular; ovules 6-8, central placentae; style filiform, 4-5 mm long; stigma simple. Berry globose, crowned with calyx lobes; seed 1, pisciform.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-August
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Moist deciduous and evergreen forests
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Distribution:
India and Sri Lanka
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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, Purple
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
400-800
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