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Canthium coromandelicum (Burm. f.) Alston
Synonym
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Canthium parviflorum
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Family
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Rubiaceae
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Local name
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English - Wild jessamine
Malayalam - Karamullu
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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April-June
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Distribution
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Indo-Malesia
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Distribution
in Kerala
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Palakkad, Alappuzha, Kasaragode, Kollam, Idukki, Kannur, Malappuram,
Kozhikode, Pathanamthitta, Thiruvananthapuram
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Habitat
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Moist and dry deciduous forests, also in sacred groves
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Uses
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Used in the treatment of scabies,
ringworm, cough, indigestion, snake bite.
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Key botanical characters :
Armed shrubs; branchlets obtusely 4-angled; bark grey;
spines supra-axillary. Leaves simple, opposite, ovate, elliptic-ovate to obovate, apex subacute, base rounded to
attenuate; stipules subulate. Flowers greenish,
4-merous, in axillary, sessile cymes below spines. Calyx cupular, 4-toothed.
Corolla campanulate to globose, mouth villous; lobes 4, ovate,
acute, spreading or reflexed. Stamens 4, subsessile, exserted. Stigma
capitate, slightly 2-lobed. Fruit subglobose, yellow.
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