- Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
(Morning-Glory Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KALADANA FAMILY (कालादाना फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : CONVOLVULACEAE
- Synonym(s) : Ipomoea bona-nox L.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ipomoea alba L.
- Common name : Moonflower, Koali-pehu
- Vernacular name : Naganamukkorai (Tamil); Nagaramukkatte, Panditivankaya (Telugu); Kunja-lata (Oria); Chandrakanthi, Mandavalli (Malayalam)
- Habit : Liana
- Habitat : Moist deciduous forests, also along sea coasts
- Comments / notes : On hills above 800m, also cultivated
- Key identification features : Flowers open at night and close at 11 am
- Flower, Fruit : September-February
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Koraput district
- Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Coimbatore district
- Native : Tropical America
- World Distribution : Naturalized in tropics
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; 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.
- 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=Ipomoea alba. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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