• 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
• Vernacular name : Gandu kepala, Lokundi, Volle kodi (Kannada)
• Habit : Tree
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Neol Sebastian
• Collection Date : 21-11-2018
• Collection Nos : KFP 971, KFP 1249, KFP 4943; HJCB-1705
• Collection Locality : Peruvanthanam, Idukki district, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Shivamogga district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Uttara Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Udupi; Herbarium specimen from Peruvanthanam, Idukki district, Kerala (not scanned)
• 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 malabaricum. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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