- Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
(Morning-Glory Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KALADANA FAMILY (कालादाना फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : CONVOLVULACEAE
- Basionym : Convolvulus hypocrateriformis Desr.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rivea hypocrateriformis Choisy
- Common name : Midnapore Creeper
- Vernacular name : Phang (Hindi); Musutaikodi, Budhikirai (Tamil); Boddi kura, Niru boddi (Kannada); Phanji (Marathi)
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : On hedges and dry deciduous forests and scrub jungles
- Comments / notes : On plains in scrub jungles and to 900m on hills.
- Flower, Fruit : August-March
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 06/05/2009
- Collection Nos : FAP 33699
- Collection Locality : Thummalapalle, Kadapa district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Anantapur district, Kurnool district, Guntur district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Kendrapara district, Keonjhar district, Cuttack district, Dhenkanal district, Sambalpur district
- Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Coimbatore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Dharmapuri district, Villipuram district
- World Distribution : India, Nepal, Pakistan
- 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; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; .N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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=Rivea hypocrateriformis. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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