• Family : VITACEAE
  (Grape Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANGOOR FAMILY (अंगूर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VITACEAE
• Basionym : Vitis glyptocarpa Thwaites
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cissus glyptocarpa Thwaites
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Slopes of hills at low elevations
• Key identification features : Climbing shrub
• Flower, Fruit : April-October
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district, Erode district, Tiruchirapalli district, Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Muthumperumal, C 2009. Check List 5(1): 092-111; 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=Cissus glyptocarpa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description

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