- 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 21 November 2024.
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