Understorey trees in open evergreen to semi-evergreen forests, up to 1200 m.
Memecylon umbellatum Burm. f.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Memecylon capitellatum Heyne ex Triana |
synonym | Memecylon capitellatum var. tinctorium (Koenig ex Willd.) Bl. |
synonym | Memecylon edule var. molestum C.B. Clarke |
synonym | Memecylon edule var. ramiflorum (Desr.) Triana |
synonym | Memecylon edule var. rubrocaeruleum (Thwaites) C.B. Clarke |
synonym | Memecylon molestum (C.B. Clarke) Cogn. |
synonym | Memecylon ramiflorum Desr. |
synonym | Memecylon rubro-caeruleum Thw. |
synonym | Memecylon tinctorium Koen. ex Willd. |
synonym | Memecylon umbellatum var. rubrocaeruleum (Thwaites) Trimen |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Summary
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
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Description
Habit: Large shrub or small tree
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Trees up to 8 m tall. Bark pale brown, fissured, thinly flaky when old; blaze yellowish brown. Branchlets terete, glabrous.Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole ca. 1 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 1.8-8.5 x 0.8-3.8 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, apex acuminate, sometimes acute, base acute to subattenuate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, drying brown; midrib canaliculate; secondary nerves obscure; tertiary nerves obscure. Inflorescence clusters of distinctly peduncled dense cymose umbels, axillary or on lateral tubercles; flowers deep blue. Berry, globose, yellow, 0.5 cm across, seeds 1.
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.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Flowering branch
Leaf upper side
Inflorescence insertion
Flowers on old branches
Petiole and leaf insertion
Leaf lower side
Flower insertion
Leaf torn & fibres
Habit
Trees up to 8 m tall.
Trunk & Bark
Bark pale brown, fissured, thinly flaky when old; blaze yellowish brown.
Branches and Branchlets
Branchlets terete, glabrous.
Leaves
Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole ca. 1 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 1.8-8.5 x 0.8-3.8 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, apex acuminate, sometimes acute, base acute to subattenuate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, drying brown; midrib canaliculate; secondary nerves obscure; tertiary nerves obscure.
Inflorescence / Flower
Inflorescence clusters of distinctly peduncled dense cymose umbels, axillary or on lateral tubercles; flowers deep blue.
Fruit and Seed
Berry, globose, yellow, 0.5 cm across, seeds 1.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Flowering and fruiting: February-March
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Flower blooms during March to June. Fruit ripes during October to November
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Morphology
Growth Form
Tree
A moderate sized tree mostly found in Southern Assam generally in low elevation. Leaves smaller and lanceolate. Flowers in cyme, small, bright blue. Fruit berry, globose, small.
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Ecology
Understorey trees in open evergreen to semi-evergreen forests, up to 1200 m.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Semi Evergreen, Shola Forests to Moist Deciduous Forests, also in the plains
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Semi-evergreen, shola and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Understorey trees in open evergreen to semi-evergreen forests, up to 1200 m.
Description
Global Distribution
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
Maharashtra: Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Nasik, Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Satara, Sindhudurg, Thane
Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Coorg, Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, Shimoga, S. Kanara
Kerala: All districts
Tamil Nadu: All districts
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Peninsular India and Sri Lanka; in the Western Ghats- through out.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1409
Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1409 |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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The ripe fruits are eaten.
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1409
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983
- Memecylon edule Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 82.1798; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2:563.1879p.p.; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 504(356).1919; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 162. 1985; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 165. 1989; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 196. 1994; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 59. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 142. 1998; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 225. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 294. 2009.
- Memecylon umbellatum Burm.f., Fl. Ind. 87. 1768; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 504(355). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 110. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 186. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 163. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 110. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 187. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 255. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 202. 1990; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 165. 1989; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 187. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 271. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 131. 1999; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 63. 2000; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 127. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 226. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 295. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 371. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1409
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983
- Memecylon edule Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 82.1798; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2:563.1879p.p.; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 504(356).1919; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 162. 1985; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 165. 1989; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 196. 1994; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 59. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 142. 1998; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 225. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 294. 2009.
- Memecylon umbellatum Burm.f., Fl. Ind. 87. 1768; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 504(355). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 110. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 186. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 163. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 110. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 187. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 255. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 202. 1990; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 165. 1989; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 187. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 271. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 131. 1999; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 63. 2000; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 127. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 226. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 295. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 371. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Myrtales |
Family | Melastomataceae |
Genus | Memecylon |
Species | Memecylon umbellatum Burm. f. |
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