• Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
  (Morning-Glory Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KALADANA FAMILY (कालादाना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CONVOLVULACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Ipomoea macrantha Roem. & Schult.; Ipomoea tuba (Schltdl.) G. Don; Ipomoea longiflora R. Br. (Fl. Of Udipi by KG Bhat)
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ipomoea violacea L.
• Common name : Heavenly Blue Morning Glory, Sea Moonflower Glory
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Scrub jungles near sea coasts and along roadsides
• Comments / notes : Not common, found along the margins of brackish rivers
• Key identification features : Stem slender and twining, leaves heart-shaped. Flowers funnel shaped in axillary clusters, corolla banded. Fruit a globose capsule.
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Udupi district, Bengaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Ernakulam district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Cuttack district
• Native : India, N.America
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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 violacea. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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