• 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
• Common name : Pretty Morning Glory
• Vernacular name : Ugniumboo (Kannada); Oonankodi (Tamil); Theendra teega (Telugu)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Often in plains to 1200m. Gregarious on thickets and trees.
• Flower, Fruit : October-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Guntur district, Kurnool district, Chittoor district, Krishna district, Kadapa district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Salem district, Vellore district, Dindigul district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, China
• 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; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka;Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; 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 staphylina. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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