Benkara malabarica - Sirukarai

❏ Binomial Name : Benkara malabarica (Lam.) Tirveng.

❏ Synonym : Randia malabarica,Griffithia fragrans

❏ Family : Rubiaceae

❏ Tamil Name : Sirukarai, Pudan

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Benkara malabarica Botanical Description

Armed shrubs; spines in axillary pairs. Leaves 2-7 x 1.5-3.5 cm, elliptic, oblanceolate or obovate, base cuneate, apex obtuse or rounded, coriaceous; petiole to 7 mm long. Flowers in axillary corymbose cymes; pedicels 5-7 mm long; bracts and bracteoles free or connate. Calyx c. 4 mm long, tubular; teeth 5, triangular-acute. Corolla white, c. 1.8 cm across, salver-shaped; tube 5-7 mm long; lobes 5, oblong, acute, reflexed. Stamens 5, between the lobes, exserted; anthers c. 7 mm long, linear. Berry 0.8 - 1.2 cm across, subglobose, scarlet. Seeds many, not embedded in pulp.

Fl. &Fr.:  January-May

Benkara malabarica Medicinal uses

The leave juice used to Abdominal pain and throat infection.

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