Diploclisia glaucescens (Blume) Diels

 
  • Family : MENISPERMACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Menispermaceae
  • Species : Diploclisia glaucescens (Blume) Diels
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Diploclisia glaucescens (Blume) Diels
  • Collection Nos : KFP 791, KFP 8095
  • Key identification features : A shrubby woody climber. Leaves are simple, broadly ovate or suborbicular, peltate-cordate. Inflorescence is a panicle, drooping from nodes of old wood. Flowers are yellow; sepals are 6; petals are 5, smaller than sepals, auricled and embraces the stamens, which are 6 and free, pistils 3 and free. Fruit is an ovoid drupe becoming reddish with age.
  • Habit : Liana
  • Flower, Fruit : February-August
  • Native : Indian sub-continent, South-east Asia, China
  • Comments : Frequent in hedges and in forests.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Belgaum, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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