Herbarium JCB

Embelia ribes N. Burman

Family : MYRSINACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Primulaceae
Species : Embelia ribes
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Embelia ribes Burm.f.
Common name : Embelia
Vernacular name : Vidanga (San.); Vayvidamg, Bhabhiramg (Hin.); Vayuvidanga (Kan.)
Collection Nos : KFP 528, KFP 8023, CJS 12906
Key identification features : A large climbing shrub, branches are slender, flexible, deciduous, the bases of which remains as deflexed spines. Leaves are lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute at apex, gland dotted and with glandular pits near the midrib beneath. Flowers are 5-merous, white, in terminal panicled racemes. Calyx-lobes are hairy. Petals are villous on both sides. Drupe is 5 mm across, globose.
Habit : Liana
Comments : Common in semi-evergreen forests.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada, Udupi
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara