- Family : HIPPOCRATEACEAE
(Salacia Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KANOR FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : CELASTRACEAE
- Synonym(s) : Salacia prinoides DC.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Salacia chinensis L.
- Vernacular name : Ekanaayakana beru (Kannada); Batra (Oria); Sapta chakra (Sanskrit); Cherukoranti (Malayalam); Saptarangi (Marathi)
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : Stream banks of miost deciduous forests and sacred groves
- Comments / notes : Common in semi-evergreen forests to 1000m
- Key identification features : Straggling shrub, youger branches angular
- Flower, Fruit : February-October
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy, Navendu Page & K. Sankara Rao
- Collection Date : 24/02/2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0479; HJCB-0487
- Collection Locality : Chandaka WLS, Khurda district (OD)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, Kadapa district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Nashik district, Ratnagiri district, Thane district
- Odisha : Koraput district, Mayurbhanj district, Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary (Balasore district), Puri district, Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Tiruchirapalli district
- World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
- 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; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; 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; 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=Salacia chinensis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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