• Family : HIPPOCRATEACEAE
  (Salacia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : Kanor Family
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CELASTRACEAE
• Basionym : Hippocratea indica Willd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Reissantia indica (Willd.) N.Hallé
• Vernacular name : Morasarakodi, Odankodi (Tamil)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in foothills of scrub jungles to lower slopes of Eastern Ghats.
• Flower, Fruit : April-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Satara district
  • Odisha : Angul district (Angul district), Khordha district (Khurda district), Balasore district (Balasore district), Puri district (Puri district), Ganjam district (Ganjam district)
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, South China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; 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; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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=Reissantia indica. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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