• Family : MYRSINACEAE
  (Myrsine Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : VIDANGA FAMILY (विडंग फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PRIMULACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Kaakkandangaai (Tamil)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests grasslands, and sacred groves
• Comments / notes : On hills above 900m on thickets and forest borders.
• Flower, Fruit : November-May
• Collector(s) Name : Navendu Page, Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 23/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0582
• Collection Locality : Karadyur, Yercaud, Salem district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Namakkal district, Salem district, Kanyakumari district, Alagar Hills (Madurai district)
• Native : Indian subcontinent
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malay Peninsula
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
• 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=Embelia basaal. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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