• Family : VITACEAE
  (Grape Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANGOOR FAMILY (अंगूर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VITACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Vitis repanda (Vahl) Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cissus repanda (Wight & Arn.) Vahl
• Vernacular name : Panibel (Hindi); Yelaekambulla balli (Kannada); Takwall, Tekual, Pan-bel (Oria)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests, also in sacred groves
• Flower, Fruit : February-September
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruchirapalli district, Shevaroy Hills (Salem district)
• Native : Indian subcontinent
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Indo-China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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 repanda. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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