Herbarium JCB

Calotropis gigantea (L.) R.Br.

Family : ASCLEPIADACEAE
(Milkweed Family)
Family (Hindi name) : AAK FAMILY (आक फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Calotropis gigantea (L.) Dryand.
Common name : Giant Milk-Weed, Giant Swallow wort Madar Plant, Bowstring hemp, Crown Flower, Giant Calotrope
Vernacular name : Madar, Akoa, Akond, Akona (Hindi); Ekkada gida (Kannada); Erukku, Arkkam, Yerikan, Yerukku (Tamil); Tella jilledu, Racha jilledu, Jilledu (Telugu); Arko, Urak, Akand (Oria); Arka (Sanskrit); Dinesam, Erikku, Erikkalachedi, Vella-erikku, Yerikku (Malayalam)
Habit : Tree
Comments / notes : Occasional on plains to 1000m,by wayside, in wasteland. A ready colonizer by roads.
Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
- Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Ballari district, Kolar district, Chamarajanagar district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Odisha : Angul district, Balasore district, Bargarh district, Bolangir district, Boudh district, Cuttack district, Deogarh district, Dhenkanal district, Gajapati district, Ganjam district, Kalhandi district, Kandhamal district, Kendrapara district, Keonjhar district, Khurda district, Koraput district, Malkangiri district, Mayurbhanj district, Puri district, Rayagada district, Sambalpur district, Sundergarh district, PLN
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Tropical Himalayas, Malaysia, S. China, Pakistan, Maldives
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Calotropis gigantea. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.