• Family : CUCURBITACEAE
  (Gourd Or Melon Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KHARBOOZA FAMILY (खरबूजा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CUCURBITACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Kattupudal (Tamil); Nepodal (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Grasslands and margins of shola forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in wet deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : April-September
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Common in foothills of Southern Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; 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=Trichosanthes anaimalaiensis. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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