• Family : RHAMNACEAE
  (Buckthorn Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BER FAMILY (बेर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RHAMNACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Smythea bombaiensis (Dalz.) Ban. & Mukh.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Vembadavalli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Not common
• Flower, Fruit : February-April
• Collection Nos : KFP 6922, CJS 16250
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• 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; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; M.R. Almeida (1996). Flora of Maharashtra vol..
• 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=Ventilago bombaiensis. Downloaded on 3 July 2025.

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