• Family : APOCYNACEAE
  (Dogbane Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KARONDA FAMILY (करौंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Carissa congesta Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Carissa spinarum L.
• Common name : Small carissa
• Vernacular name : Karamarada (Sanskrit); Karonda, Karaunda (Hindi); Palaregi, Kalivi, Chinna kalivi, Chinna vaaka (Telugu); Auka kuli, Ankhu-koli, Dud koli, San karenda, Pham pham mali (Oria); Karamarada (Sanskrit); Sirukilaa (Tamil)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Scrub jungles
• Comments / notes : On plains to 900m in scrub jungles, on degraded slopes. Fruits are pickled and edible when ripe
• Key identification features : Armed shrub with straight or slightly curved spines. Leaves are simple, thin, and broadly ovate or sub orbicular, up to 2.5 inch long,1.5 inch broad. Inflorescence is a cyme, flowers are white and ciliate. Fruit is a 4 seeded berry.
• Flower, Fruit : February-July
• Collector(s) Name : K. Sankara Rao, Arun Singh, Navendu Page & Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 24/02/2016
• Collection Nos : Stevens 588, CS 1140, HJCB-049
• Collection Locality : Chandaka WLS, Khurda district (OD)
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Carissa spinarum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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