Herbarium JCB

Asparagus gonoclados Baker

Family : LILIACEAE
(Lily Family)
Family (Hindi name) : BACHNAG FAMILY (बचनाग फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : ASPARAGACEAE
Synonym(s) : Protasparagus gonoclados (Baker) Kamble
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Asparagus gonoclados Baker
Vernacular name : Sathavari (Malayalam)
Habit : Climber
Habitat : Moist deciduous and Evergreen forests
Comments / notes : Common on thickets of deciduous forests.
Flower, Fruit : August-January
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Talakona R.F., Kambakkam (Chittoor district)
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Palghar district, Thane district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Pune district, Satara district
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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=Asparagus gonoclados. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.