• Family : LEEACEAE
  (Leea Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KUKUR JIHWA FAMILY (कुकुर जिह्वा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VITACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Leea wightii C.B. Clarke
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Leea guineense G.Don
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : May-February
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Andaman, Myanmar, Taiwan, Laos, Tropical Africa, Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra 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=Leea guineensis. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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