• Family : ANCISTROCLADACEAE
  (Ancistrocladus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANCISTROCLADUS FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ANCISTROCLADACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ancistrocladus heyneanus Wall. ex J.Graham
• Vernacular name : Modiravalli (Malayalam); Kardal, Karotal (Marathi)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Climbing shrub with hooks
• Flower, Fruit : January-April
• Collector(s) Name : T.P.Ramamoorthy & K.N.Gandhi
• Collection Nos : HFP 2723, KFP 6299
• Collection Locality : Bisle Ghat (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : South India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India 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=Ancistrocladus heyneanus. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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