• Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
  (Morning-Glory Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KALADANA FAMILY (कालादाना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CONVOLVULACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Stictocardia tiliifolia (Desr.) Hallier f.
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Along sea coasts and scrub jungles, also grown as garden plant
• Comments / notes : Cultivated as an ornament.
• Flower, Fruit : November-February
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Thanjavur district
• World Distribution : Circumtropical and Introduced in the New World
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Stictocardia tiliifolia. Downloaded on 27 April 2024.

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