• 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 : Gavel (Marathi)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Arun Singh
• Collection Date : 12/09/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0030
• Collection Locality : Javadu Hills, Tiruvannamalai district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Mysuru district, Ballari district, Tumakuru district, Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Tiruvannamalai district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; N. P. Singh 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
• 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 sericea. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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