- Family : MYRSINACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Primulaceae
- Species : Maesa indica (Roxb.) DC.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Maesa indica (Roxb.) A. DC.
- Collection Nos : KFP 4176, KFP 7172
- Endemism : India
- Key identification features : A large shrub or a small tree. Leaves are elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex, dentate or serrate, glabrous above. Flowers are small, white in axillary simple or branched racemes. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary. Corolla is shortly campanulate, 5-lobed. Stamens are 5. Ovary is half-inferior. Fruit is a berry, globose upto 5 mm across. Seeds are many.
- Habit : Shrub
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Native : India
- Comments : Leaves resemble that of Tea plants' leaves. Common in forests of Western Ghats
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Belgaum, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Uttara Kannada, Udupi
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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