• Family : ASCLEPIADACEAE
  (Milkweed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AAK FAMILY (आक फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
• Basionym : Stapelia adscendens Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not found in The Plant List
• Vernacular name : Vaddaramegate (Kannada); Eluvan, Muyalkombu chedi (Tamil); Kundetikommulu (Telugu)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : On foothills and hill slopes to 900m, in sheltered places amongst rocky crevices and inside thickets away from grazing. Dry deciduous forests and scrub jungles
• Flower, Fruit : July-October (Western Ghats)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Kadapa district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Guntur district
  • Telangana : Mehboobnagar district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Odisha : Gajapati district, Cuttack district, Ganjam district, TVM
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; 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; 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=Caralluma adscendens var. adscendens. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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