Chathuramulla

Scientific Name :

Myxopyrum smilacifolium (Wall.) Blume

Synonym(s) :

Chionanthus smilacifolius Wall.

Local/Common name(s) :

Chathuramulla

Family :

Oleaceae

Habit :

Climber

Flowering/Fruiting Time :

February-August

Habitat :

Semi-evergreen and evergreen forests, also in sacred groves

Endemic :

Status (IUCN) :

Distribution :

South East Asia and India

Nativity :

Indigenous

Uses :

Medicine

Description (Morphology) :

Twining shrubs; branches 4-angular. Leaves simple, opposite, 7-13 x 3-5 cm, elliptic-ovate or oblong, base rounded to subcordate, margins serrulate from the middle towards apex, apex acuminate, basally 5-nerved, subcoriaceous; petiole to 1.2 cm long. Flowers in axillary trichotomous short panicles, 4-merous, bisexual. Calyx 1-1.5 cm long, lobes 4. Corolla yellowish, tube 1-2 mm long; lobes 4. Stamens 2, included. Ovary 2-locular; ovules 1-2-per locule; stigma 2-lobed. Berry 1-1.5 cm across, globose, black; seeds 2.