- Family : MALPIGHIACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Malpighiaceae
- Species : Hiptage benghalensis
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Hiptage benghalensis (L.) Kurz
- Common name : Clustered hiptage
- Vernacular name : Maadhavi (San.); Maadhavilata (Hin.); Madhu Malathi, Maadhavi lata, Madhulatha (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : KFP 371, KFP 3199
- Key identification features : A handsome climbing shrub. Leaves are decussate, elliptic-lanceolate with glands at the base. Flowers are in racemes, which are either axillary or terminal. Calyx has a gland. Petals are fringed, white with yellow tinge. A disc is present in the flower. Fruit is winged.
- Habit : Liana
- Native : India
- Comments : Flowers are very fragrant.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
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