- Family : FABACEAE
(PEA OR BEAN FAMILY)
- Family (as per The Plant List) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Mimosoideae
- Species : Entada pusaetha
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Entada rheedii Spreng.
- Common name : Calling Card Vine, Elephant Creeper, Garbee bean, Monkey bean
- Vernacular name : Gila, Chian (Hin.); Yanaikolinchi, Cillu, Irikki, Samudrapuliyam (Tam.); Gilatige, Peddamadupu, Tikkatiyyu, Tikkativva (Tel.); Giredi, Osta, Arsi, Asta, Barogilo, Gila, Gilo (Ori.)
- Key identification features : A large, prolific, unarmed, woody climber. Leaves are pinnately compound, the ultimate pinnae being tendrillar. Flowers are tiny (less than 0.5 cm long) in long narrow spikes with exserted stamens. Pods are broad, flat, woody and long (up to 5 ft) consisting of many discoid, one-seeded joints.
- Habit : Liana
- Flower, Fruit : April-June; June-March
- Comments : On hills above 1000 m in moist-deciduous to semi-evergreen forests.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district) (Tamil Nadu State); Nallamalai Hills (Kurnool district), Srikakulam district, Visakhapatnam district, Rampa Hills (East Godavari district), West Godavari district, Sesachalam Hills (Kadapa district), Prakasham district (Andhra Pradesh State); Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district), Puri district, Gandhamardan Hills (Bargarh district), Ganjam district (Odisha State)
- World Distribution : Tropical Africa, Sri Lanka, India, China, Malesia to Australia
- Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2 ; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District ; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District ; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipal, Orissa; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Entada pusaetha. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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