• 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 wightii Hook.f.
• Vernacular name : Kuringil (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : A large woody climber
• Flower, Fruit : March-May
• Collection Nos : KFP 2984, KFP 10914
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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=Connarus wightii. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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