• Family : VITACEAE
  (Grape Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANGOOR FAMILY (अंगूर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VITACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Vitis repens (Lam.) Wight & Arn.; Cissus glauca Roxb.; Vitis glauca (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cissus repens Lam.
• Common name : Cissus
• Vernacular name : Pandho, Diboria (Oria); Nellaboddu (Telugu); Chunnambuvalli, Mrigampuli, Njarala, Nerinnampuli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Deciduous and Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 1200m
• Key identification features : A stout shrub at low elevations of hills
• Flower, Fruit : July-November
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 21/06/2010
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-307
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli RF, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Beed district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Bargarh district, Koraput district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district
• World Distribution : Himalayas, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Myanmar
• 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; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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; 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 repens. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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