- Family : LINACEAE
(Flax Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI ALSI FAMILY (जंगली अलसी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LINACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not found in The Plant List
- Common name : Climbing flax
- Vernacular name : Mullu ankole, Modirakkani gida (Kannada); Mothirakkanni, Agori (Tamil); Kakibira, Pisangi, Gatrinta, Thenekaya (Telugu); Chulijinkha (Oria); Kaamsamarah (Sanskrit); Kaarthotti, Modirakkanni (Malayalam)
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : Dry and moist deciduous forests, also scrub jungles of the plains
- Comments / notes : Occasional in dry deciduous and scrub forests up to 900m. Flowers are showy.
- Flower, Fruit : May-October
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R, Imran Baig & A.N.Sringeswara
- Collection Date : 09/04/2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-37
- Collection Locality : Polur Ghat, Jawadhu Hills, Tiruvannamalai district (TN)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Palakonda RF, Guvvalacheruvu RF (Kadapa district), Chittoor district, Prakasam district, Nellore district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : All hills of Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- Native : South India, Sri Lanka
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District.
- 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=Hugonia mystax. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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