• Family : HIPPOCRATEACEAE
  (Salacia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KANOR FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CELASTRACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Eakanayakam, Ponkarandi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests, also in the sacred groves and plains
• Comments / notes : Common in evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : February-May
• Collection Nos : KFP 1376, KFP 8827
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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 fruticosa. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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