- Family : MELASTOMATACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Melastomataceae
- Species : Memecylon umbellatum
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Memecylon umbellatum N. Burman (Unresolved name)
- Common name : Iron-wood tree
- Vernacular name : Mundi, Alle, Archara (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : KFP 7934, KFP 8884, KFP 18655
- Key identification features : A moderate size evergreen tree with sometimes yellowish-foliage. Bark is thin, light-brown, corky and fluted or marked by fine vertical cracks. Leaves are coriaceous, opposite, elliptic-ovate, shining above and pale beneath. Flowers are axillary, bluish-purple or blue, in compact sessile umbels. Petals 4, Stamens 8. Berry is sub-globose, purplish black and shining.
- Habit : Tree
- Native : India, Srilanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Shimoga, Tumkur, Uttara Kannada
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
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