Family: Rubiaceae
Synonym: Gmelina coromandelina Burm.f.
Vernacular name: Kandakara, Karamullu,
Kattaramullu, Madhakara Niruri,Serukara
Habit: Shrub
Habitat: Moist and dry deciduous forests,
also in sacred groves
Distribution: Indo-Malesia
Flowering and Fruiting: April-June
Key identification features: This shrub features branchlets with obtuse 4-angled
stems. The leaves are ovate, elliptic-ovate, or obovate. Greenish flowers, with 4 petals, appear
in axillary, sessile
cymes below the spines. The 4 stamens are subsessile and exserted.
The fruit
is subglobose,
yellow.
Use: To remove thorns that have got
into the skin, the tender leaves are boiled and tied on the infected part to
remove the thorn.
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