• 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) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Sahasravedi (Oria); Sahasravedi (Sanskrit); Bhindodi (Marathi)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Dry deciduous forests and also grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : April-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 02/01/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-280
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Nigidi forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Nellore district, East Godavari district, Krishna district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Bargarh district, Koraput district, Balasore district, Keonjhar district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
• World Distribution : Sri Lanka, India, Nepal
• 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; 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=Tylophora fasciculata. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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