• 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) : Ceropegia hirsuta Wight & Arn.
• Vernacular name : Hamana (Marathi)
• Habit : Climber
• Comments / notes : On hills up to 900m,normally twining on thickets.
• Key identification features : Latex is watery; tuber is compressed-globose.
• Flower, Fruit : June-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district (GKVK, Campus)
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Satara district, Pune district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Keonjhar district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Near Threatened (NT)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India; 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=Ceropegia hirsuta. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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