- Family : APOCYNACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Apocynaceae
- Species : Carissa congesta Wight
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Carissa spinarum L.
- Vernacular name : Karamarada (San.)
- Collection Nos : Stevens 588, CS 1140
- Endemism : Peninsular India
- Key identification features : Armed shrub with straight or slightly curved spines. Leaves are simple, thin, and broadly ovate or sub orbicular, up to 2.5 inch long,1.5 inch broad. Inflorescence is a cyme, flowers are white and ciliate. Fruit is a 4 seeded berry.
- Habit : Liana
- Flower, Fruit : February-March
- Native : India
- Comments : Fruits are pickled, ripe fruits are eaten.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Belgaum, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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