Memecylon randerianum SM & MR Almeida

കൈക്കതെറ്റി

Family : MELASTOMATACEAE

Synonym :

Memecylon malabaricum (Clarke) Cogn. 

Common Names : Kaikkathetti, Kashara, Kazhavu, Koovachekki

Flowering Period : February-May

Distribution : Southern Western Ghats

Habitat : Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, and also in sacred groves

Uses : Used in Indian Folk medicine.

Key Characters :

Bushy shrubs. Leaves simple, opposite, 5-12 x 1.5-4 cm, ovate, apex gradually acute, cordate at base, sessile; nerves obscure. Flowers fascicled in very dense many-flowered cymes; peduncles 1-2 mm long; pedicels short, 1-2 mm long. Calyx tube 1-2 mm long, campanulate, truncate at apex. Petals 1-2 mm long, obovate, blue. Style subulate, c. 3 mm long. Berry 4-5 mm across, globose.