• Family : CELASTRACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Celastraceae
• Species : Celastrus paniculatus
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Celastrus paniculatus Willd.
• Common name : Staff Tree
• Vernacular name : Jyostismati (San.); Malakanguni (Hin.); Kari gonne, Gangudekayi, Jyotisumathi (Kan.)
• Collection Nos : KFP 7054, KFP 7316
• Collector(s) Name : S.R Ramesh & B.R.Ramesh
• Key identification features : An unarmed climbing shrub. Leaves are simple, elliptic to ovate or obovate with crenate- serrate margin. Flowers are yellowish-green or white, unisexual and occur in pyramidal panicles of 2-6 inches. Fruit is a globose, bright yellow septicidal capsule. Seeds are enclosed ina fleshy scarlet aril.
• Habit : Liana
• Native : India,SriLanka,Myanmar,Laos,Cambodia,Vietnam,Thailand, Malaysia,Phillippines,Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Collection Locality : Anekadu, Kushalnagar (Kodagu)
• Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
• Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere

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