• Family : MENISPERMACEAE
  (Moonseed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GILOY FAMILY (गिलोय फैमिली
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MENISPERMACEAE
• Basionym : Campylus sinensis Lour.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Tinospora sinensis (Lour.) Merr.
• Vernacular name : Kadu amruthaballi (Kannada); Perumseenthikodi (Tamil); Pothamruthu, Kattamruthu, Peiamruthu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in sacred groves in plains
• Comments / notes : Rare
• Flower, Fruit : February-June
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Nallamada RF (Anantapur district)
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Pune district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Paniganda, Mayurbhanj district, Mahendragiri (Ganjam district), Gajapati district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district)
• World Distribution : India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Pullaiah and Chennaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; 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=Tinospora sinensis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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