| Latin name | Jasminum angustifolium Willd. | | Family | Oleaceae | | Identified with (Skt) | vanamallikā | | Identified with (Hin) | banamallikā | | Identified with (Tam) | kāṭṭumallikai, kāṭṭumullai | | Identified with (Mal) | kāṭṭumulla, kāṭṭumallika | | Identified with (Eng) | Wild jasmine | | Botanical info | A wiry small scandent shrub with glabrous stems, growing in Karnataka and Kerala, leaves small, ovate, acute, glabrous, flowers on long slender pedicles, white, fruits didymous berries, ripe carpels broadly ovoid, one seed in each carpel | | Search occurrence | vanamallikā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Jasminum angustifolium Willd. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 917)
vanamallikā, f. Jasminum Sambac, L. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. S-214)
kāṭṭumullai: Wild jasmine
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