• Family : CONNARACEAE
  (Indian Zebrawood Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : CONNARUS FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CONNARACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Connarus sclerocarpus (Wight & Arn.) Schellenb.
• Vernacular name : Njaraneelakarikam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : A large Climbing shrub
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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=Connarus sclerocarpus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description