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 Embelia ribes Burm.f.

Synonym	:	Samara ribes (Burm. f.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex Kurz
Family	:	Primulaceae
Local name	:	Malayalam- Vizhal
Flowering and fruiting period	:	March-August
Distribution	:	Indo-Malesia and South China
Distribution in kerala	:	All Districts
Habitat	:	Forest or at forest borders at elevations from sea level
Uses	:	functioning of the digestive system and alleviates flatulence, gaseous belching and constipation.
Key Botanical Charcters :  climber with branchlets slender, white, without warts. Leaves are up to 7 x 3 cm, elliptic, pointed at both ends; nerves many, parallel, faint; leaf-stalk 1 cm long. Flowers are borne in panicles 15 x 15 cm, hairless, branches long, slender racemose; flower-stalks 1.5 cm long. Flowers are white, many; sepals small, triangular, woolly; petals 2 mm long, ovate, pointed, densely woolly. Berry is 2.5 mm.