• Family : ASCLEPIADACEAE
  (Milkweed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AAK FAMILY (आक फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Cynanchum sarcomedium Meve & Liede
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Common name : East-Indian Globe Thistle
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Foothills of deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in scrub jungles, deciduous forests up to 1200m on thickets.
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy
• Collection Date : 21-03-2013; 11-09-2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 39185; FAP 40077
• Collection Locality : Kalasamudram forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Anantapur district
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• 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; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Ulrich Meve & Sigrid Liede-Schumann (2012). Taxonomic dissolution of Sarcostemma (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae). KEW BULLETIN VOL. 67: 751 – 758. Asclepiadoideae); 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=Sarcostemma intermedium. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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