• Family : VITACEAE
  (Grape Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANGOOR FAMILY (अंगूर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VITACEAE
• Basionym : Vitis tenuifolia Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cayratia tenuifolia (Wight & Arn.) Gagnep.
• Common name : Fox grape
• Vernacular name : Narala balli (Kannada); Amerchakkodi, Chorivalli, Kattuperanda, Vathakkodi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in forests of Western Ghats.
• Flower, Fruit : March-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, China and Japan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Cayratia tenuifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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