• Family : APOCYNACEAE
  (Dogbane Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KARONDA FAMILY (करौंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
• Basionym : Periploca alboflavescens Dennst.
• Synonym(s) : Parsonsia inodora (Lour.) M. R. & S. M. Almeida; Parsonsia laevigata (Moon) Alston; Parsonsia alboflavescens (Dennst.) Mabb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Parsonsia alboflavescens (Dennst.) Mabb.
• Vernacular name : Penalivalli, Peenarivalli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen, Evergreen forests, also in the plains and coast
• Comments / notes : On hills above 750m; Not common, found growing along hedges
• Flower, Fruit : March-June
• Collection Nos : CJS 14431, CJS 15786
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district
• World Distribution : Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, S.China, Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara.
• 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=Parsonsia alboflavescens. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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