• Family : OLACACEAE
  (Olax Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : DHENIANI FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : OLACACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Erythropalum populifolium (Arn.) Masters; Mackaya populifolia Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Erythropalum scandens Blume
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : November-February
• Collector(s) Name : Sunny Mathew
• Collection Nos : KFP 533, KFP 11516, CJS 16224, CJS 13039
• Collection Locality : Sugandhagiri, Wynad District; Lakkidi, Wynad District
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Shivamogga district, WYN
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia to South West China and Celebes
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Erythropalum scandens. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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