• Family : CONNARACEAE
  (Indian Zebrawood Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : CONNARUS FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CONNARACEAE
• Basionym : Aegiceras minus Gaertn.
• Synonym(s) : Connarus santaloides Vahl
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rourea minor (Gaertn.) Alston
• Vernacular name : Kalavidhara, Vidhara (Hindi); Huleechala balli (Kannada); Chandrapudi (Telugu); Cheriyamarikunni, Kuriel (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests, also in sacred groves
• Key identification features : Climbing shrub
• Flower, Fruit : December-August
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Cuttack district, Kendrapara district, Kandhamal district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar (India), Southeast Asia, South China, Bangladesh, Hainan, Queensland, New Caledonia, The New Hebrides, Fiji, Samoa Islands, Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; 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=Rourea minor. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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