• 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) : Ipomoea quamoclit L.
• Common name : Cypress Vine, Indian pink, Cardinal climber, Cupid's Flower, Cypressvine Morning-glory, Red jasmine, Star of Bethlehem, Star-glory, Sweet-willy
• Vernacular name : Nakshatra hoovu gida (Kannada); Kembumalligai, Mayilmannikkam (Tamil); Kasiratnamu (Telugu); Ganeshpushpa (Marathi); Akasha-mulla, Narayani poovu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Garden plant
• Comments / notes : Often cultivated in house holds and along hedges.
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Native : New World tropics
• World Distribution : New World tropics, Tropical Asia
• 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; 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.
• 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 quamoclit. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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