• 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) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Mahalikizhangu, Malathangi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, especially in rock crevices
• Flower, Fruit : April-June
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India 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=Stephania wightii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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