• Family : ASCLEPIADACEAE
  (Milkweed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AAK FAMILY (आक फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
• Basionym : Asclepias daemia Forssk.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov.
• Common name : Trellis Vine
• Vernacular name : Utarani, Utranajutuka, Sagovani, Gutuk (Hindi); Kurudigina balli, Halukoratiga (Kannada); Veliparuthi, Uthamani, Belapatri, Vaelipparuthi, Seendal kodi (Tamil); Guruli, Dushtupatige, Gittupaku, Gurti chettu (Telugu); Hunturi, Utrali, Uturudi, Itnadi, Iturhi (Oria); Yugaphala (Sanskrit); Utarni (Marathi); Velipparuthi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Scrub and open deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains in wastelands and by wayside thickets. Ready colonizer up to 1200m.
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Collector(s) Name : K.Sankara Rao, Arun Singh R, Raja K.Swamy & Siddharth.S
• Collection Date : 25/10/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-116
• Collection Locality : Bakharapet ghat, Talakona-Tirupati road, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, India, Tropical Himalayas, Myanmar, Malaysia, Sri Lanka
• 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=Pergularia daemia. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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