Salacia beddomei – eFlora of India

March 27, 2011
Salacia

Salacia beddomei Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1916: 133 1916. ;

Malayalam

Korantivalli

Scandent shrubs, branchlets lenticellate. Leaves 10-20 x 7-9 cm, oblong, obtuse at base and apex, faintly crenate; nerves 11-13 pairs, distinct below. Flowers pinkish yellow, 3-9 together; pedicels 1 cm long, slender; sepals 1.5 mm long, triangular; petals 2.5 x 1.5 mm, ovate, acute, glabrous, yellow with white margins; filaments 0.5 mm long, curved. Berry 3 cm across, obovoid, coarsely rugose. Fruits not seen.

Flowering and fruiting: January-March

Semi-evergreen and evergreen forests

Southern Western Ghats (Endemic)

(From India Biodiversity Portal

Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi)

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Salacia beddomei : Attachments (1). 1 post by 1 author.

Kindly see a wild edible fruit ‘Salacia beddomei’, an endemic species of the Western Ghats.

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Salacia beddomei Gamble : Attachments (2). 3 posts by 3 authors.

Salacia beddomei Gamble; fam: Celastraceae

Altitude 850m, Cultivated, Denkanikota, Krishnagiri Dt Tamilnadu

05/07/2013, 19/02/2013, woody climber

Root, stem for diabetes, fruit edible

Thanks … for posting this rare plant

References:

The Plant List Ver.1.1 India Biodiversity Portal Type of Salacia beddomei Gamble [family CELASTRACEAE]

1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants Trees & Lianas of Western Ghats (India) – Lianas All | Sahyadri

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