• Family : MENISPERMACEAE
  (Moonseed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GILOY FAMILY (गिलोय फैमिली
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MENISPERMACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cocculus laurifolius DC.
• Vernacular name : Aadukolli, Marpinki (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
• Comments / notes : Cultivated in gardens
• Flower, Fruit : April-October
• Collection Nos : KFP 3941, KFP 11088
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district (FRLHT Campus)
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Cultivated
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia and East Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; 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 Maharastra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
• 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=Cocculus laurifolius. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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