• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Podaparedu (Telugu)
• Habit : Climber
• Comments / notes : Occasional in dry deciduous forests at above 800m, on forest floors and borders.
• Flower, Fruit : March-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Dakshina Kannada district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Tiruchirapalli district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, 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; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara.
• 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=Meyenia hawtayneana. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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