• 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 21 November 2024.

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