• Family : CUCURBITACEAE
  (Gourd Or Melon Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KHARBOOZA FAMILY (खरबूजा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CUCURBITACEAE
• Basionym : Sicyos garcinii Burm. f.
• Synonym(s) : Blastania garcini (L.) Cogn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ctenolepis garcini (L.) C.B.Clarke
• Vernacular name : Kollankovai (Tamil); Kozhikidalam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests and Scrub jungle
• Comments / notes : In plains to 500m, on thickets
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 02/01/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-281
• Collection Locality : Mobbuchintalapalle, Kadapa district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Guntur district, Kadapa district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Chittoor district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Raichur district, Bengaluru district, Kolar district, Mandya district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Vellore district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Matthew, K.M., 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=Ctenolepis garcini. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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