• 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
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : February-April
• Collection Nos : KRK 3358
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Pathanamthitta district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• 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.
• 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 malabarica. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

Botanical Description

Field Image(s)