• Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
  (Morning-Glory Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KALADANA FAMILY (कालादाना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CONVOLVULACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Ipomoea sindica Stapf
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ipomoea eriocarpa R.Br.
• Vernacular name : Puriti tiga (Telugu); Musakani, Paninoi (Oria); Sheetavalli (Sanskrit); Pulichevidu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests and scrub jungles
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 400m. Grows on thickets and road cuttings.
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy & B. Sadasivaiah
• Collection Date : 10/12/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 41989
• Collection Locality : Bakkannagaripalle, Kadapa district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, Krishna district, Gundlabrahmeswaram RF (Kurnool district), Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Bidar district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Villipuram district
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, Madagascar through Tropical Asia and Northern Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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.; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Ipomoea eriocarpa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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