Botanical name: Benkara griffithii    Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Randia griffithii, Tarenna borii, Fagerlindia griffithii, Oxyceros griffithii

Yellow Benkara is an erect shrub or small tree with straggling branches; branchlets marked with prominent hairy ridges indicating the nodes. Flowers are yellow, 5-merous in few flowered, almost stalkless, branch-end cymes; bracts fused. Sepal-cup is 6 mm long, funnel-shaped; limb dilated, minutely toothed, deciduous. Flower tube is short, petals elliptic, 1-1.2 cm long. Ovary is stiped, lengthening in fruit. Bark greenish-grey, dark-green underneath the very thin corky layer, 2 mm thick. Leaves are 5-12 by 1.2- 3.7 cm, ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceshaped, tapering, entire, membranous or thinly leathery, hairless, shining; lateral nerves 6-8 on either half; base pointed; leaf-stalk 0.2-1 cm long, margined; stipules fine-pointed. Berries are black, 2-celled, 2-4 seeded, spherical, 6-8 mm across. Yellow Benkara is found in East Himalaya to S. Central China. Flowering: May-July.

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