• 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) : Memecylon angustifolium Wight
• Vernacular name : Aattukanala (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Along stream banks of Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : April-May
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district, Salem district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Cecil J. Saldanha (1996). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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=Memecylon angustifolium. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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