- Family : APOCYNACEAE
(Dogbane Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KARONDA FAMILY (करौंदा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Apocynaceae
- Synonym(s) : Quirivelia frutescens (L.) M.R.Almeida & S.M.Almeida
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ichnocarpus frutescens (L.) W.T.Aiton
- Common name : Slender Dog-Bane, Black creeper
- Vernacular name :
- Ulpalasaaribaa (Sanskrit)
- Kaalidhudi, Dudhi, Dudilata (Hindi)
- Gauri balli, Koogal balli (Kannada)
- Palvalli (Malayalam)
- Udarkodi, Manipilankodi (Tamil)
- Illukatte, Nallateege, Karrativva, Mani tivva, Korampala, Kaarampala, Palativva (Telugu)
- Madhobi, Soyamnoi, Tapar lohar, Sugandhi-mal, Swanati, Dudilata, Shymalata (Oria)
- Habit : Liana
- Habitat : Deciduous forests and plains
- Comments / notes : Occasional on plains to 1100m, in scrub jungles, deciduous forests and road clearings on thickets and bushes. A ready colonizer.
- Key identification features : An evergreen woody twiner with milky sap. Leaves are elliptic-oblong or lance-shaped, tip pointed or tapering, dark green above, and paler beneath. Flowers are borne in many flowered clusters. Flowers are small with wheel-shaped spreading hairy petals, about 1 cm. across. Fruit is a follicle, solitary or paired.
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R & Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 13/09/2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0034
- Collection Locality : Alangayam R.F., Jawadhu Hills, Tiruvannamalai district (TN)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, Kadapa district, Chittoor district, Kurnool district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : Kolar district, Bengaluru district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Namakkal district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Villipuram district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Tiruvannamalai district, Sivaganga district, Thoothkudi district
- Native : Tropical Asia
- World Distribution : Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia to Australia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
- J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
- Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Ichnocarpus frutescens. Downloaded on 7 May 2024.
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