• Family : ICACINACEAE
  (Icacina Or White Pear Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHENERA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ICACINACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pyrenacantha volubilis Wight
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Evergreen forests, also in the sacred groves
• Key identification features : Much branched climbing shrub
• Flower, Fruit : June-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Nellore district
  • Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, Ramanathapuram district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : South Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah, T & Chennaiah, E., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 1; 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=Pyrenacantha volubilis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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