Family: Celastraceae
Vernacular
names: Eakanayakam, Ponkarandi
Habit:
Climbing shrub
Habitat:
Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests, also in the sacred groves and plains
Distribution:
Western Ghats
Flowering and Fruiting: February-May
Key identification features: Woody
Salacia is a woody climbing shrub, with branchlets looped; young shoots finely
velvet-hairy. Leaves are elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong. Flowers are borne
in cymes in leaf-axils, on flower-stalks. Petals are 5, brownish-yellow. Berry
is spherical, red, seeds 1-3.
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