Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Chassalia > C. curviflora

Description: Subshrubs, erect, 1-2 m tall; branches weakly flattened to subterete, glabrous or rarely sparsely puberulent. Leaves opposite; petiole glabrous; blade drying membranous to thinly papery and often yellowish green, oblong-elliptic, elliptic, oblanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate, glabrous, base cuneate to attenuate, apex acuminate to long acuminate; secondary veins 8-17 pairs, without domatia; stipules persistent, united shortly around stem, with interpetiolar portion broadly ovate or broadly triangular, acute or obtuse, entire or usually shortly bifid, with 1 or 2 bristles often gland-tipped. Inflorescence cymose, pyramidal to rounded, several to many flowered, puberulent; peduncle 1-5 cm; branched portion 3-7 cm; axes weakly flattened; bracts lanceolate to triangular or usually multifid. Flowers subsessile, trimorphic, with anthers exserted and stigmas included, with anthers included and stigmas exserted, or with anthers and stigmas both exserted. Calyx with hypanthium portion ellipsoid to obovoid, glabrous; limb 5-lobed, lobes acute. Corolla white with pink, red, or orange on lobes, outside glabrous to sparsely puberulent and longitudinally ridged to winged along tube then midribs of lobes; tube shallowly to markedly curved, straight or bent at base, pubescent inside; lobes (4 or)5, ovate-triangular, at apex thickened. Inflorescence axes becoming swollen and red. Fruit purple, oblate to globose or weakly didynamous.

Flowering and Fruiting: March - September

Uses: Folk medicine

Cultivation: Wild.

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org