Memecylon umbellatum

 

Family: MELASTOMATACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Anakkayavu, Anjanamaram, Kanali, Kalayam, Kannavu, Kayampoomaram, Kasavu, Netunjetti

English name(s): Ironwood tree

Habit: Shrub to Small Tree

Flowering & Fruiting: February-March

Medicinal: Yes

Habitat: Semi-evergreen, shola and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains

Description: Large shrubs. Leaves 2.5-5 x 1.5-3 cm, ovate-oblong or elliptic, base cuneate, apex obtuse to rounded, coriaceous, drying yellowish green; petiole c. 5 mm long. Umbels compact, 1.5-3 cm across, sessile or very short peduncled, many-flowered; flowers subsessile. Calyx 2-3 mm wide, pale bluish, truncate or shallowly 4-lobed. Petals blue, elliptic-ovate to orbicular. Filaments blue; anthers c. 1.5 mm long. Style blue. Berry c. 7 mm across, globose, initially yellowish green; mature fruit bluish black.

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