• Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
  (MORNING-GLORY FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Convolvulaceae
• Species : Ipomoea cairica
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet
• Common name : The Railway Creeper
• Vernacular name : Bekkina hejje gida (Kan.)
• Key identification features : A perennial climber with the stem rooting at nodes. Leaves are broad, deeply 7-lobed, the three central lobes being divided to the base while the outer pairs are attached. Flowers are 5-6 cm across, pretty, funnel-shaped with the petal lobes spreading at the free end and banded. Although purplish-pink, the corolla could be red, purple or white. Fruit is a capsule and seeds are hairy.
• Habit : Climbing Shrub
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the Year
• Native : Old World Tropics
• Comments : Occasional on hill plains to 1000 m, on wayside, in thickets etc.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Throughout Eastern Ghats
• World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2 ; 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=Ipomoea cairica. Downloaded on 4 July 2024.

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