• Family : MELASTOMATACEAE
  (Melastoma Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANJAN FAMILY (अंजन फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MELASTOMATACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not found in The Plant List
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Moist deciduous, semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : May-June
• Collection Nos : Wight from 'Coorg'; 1852 (K)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Medinilla beddomei. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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