Herbarium JCB

Olax imbricata Roxb.

Family : OLACACEAE
(Olax Family)
Family (Hindi name) : DHENIANI FAMILY
Family (as per The APG System III) : OLACACEAE
Synonym(s) : Olax wightiana Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Olax imbricata Roxb.
Vernacular name : Gopurakaayi, Saraliballi (Kannada); Kukurbit (Marathi); Vandathuluku (Tamil); Mannankoran-kodi (Malayalam)
Habit : Liana
Habitat : Evergreen, semi-evergreen, moist deciduous and shola forests
Comments / notes : A gregarious liana on shola trees with arching branches
Flower, Fruit : December-June
Collection Nos : CJS 2791, CJS 12412, CJS 16319
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Tamil Nadu : Krishnagiri district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district, Dharmapuri district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indo-China, Thailand, SW. China, Taiwan, Malesia through New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Micronesia
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Olax imbricata. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.