• Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
  (Morning-Glory Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KALADANA FAMILY (कालादाना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CONVOLVULACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Malaioonankodi (Tamil)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Shola forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 500m on thickets
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, Prakasam district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Davanagare district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Tiruchirapalli district, Dharmapuri district
• Endemism : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; 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; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Flora of Davanagere
• 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=Argyreia kleiniana. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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