• 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) : Telosma pallida (Roxb.) Craib
• Vernacular name :
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Scrub jungles
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Dharwad district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Gajapati district, Cuttack district, Balasore district, Bhadrak district
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar, China, Pakistan, Nepal, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam
• 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; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
• 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=Telosma pallida. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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