• Family : MALPIGHIACEAE
  (Malpighia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MADHAVI LATA FAMILY (माधवी लता फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALPIGHIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aspidopterys canarensis Dalzell
• Vernacular name : Kannaram valli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare
• Flower, Fruit : February-May
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha, Syed Maqsood Ahamed & S.R.Ramesh
• Collection Nos : KFP 699
• Collection Locality : Mallur Ghat (Dakshina Kannada)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; 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=Aspidopterys canarensis. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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