• 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 : Aanakoranti (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare, at high elevations
• Flower, Fruit : January-September
• Collection Nos : KFP 7817, HFP 2674
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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 macrosperma. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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