• Family : VITACEAE
  (Grape Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANGOOR FAMILY (अंगूर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VITACEAE
• Basionym : Cissus auriculata Wall. ex Roxb.
• Synonym(s) : Cayratia auriculata (Roxb.) Gamble; Vitis auriculata (Wall.) Woght & Arn.; Vitis auriculata (Roxb.) Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyphostemma auriculatum (Roxb.) P.Singh & B.V.Shetty
• Vernacular name : Aiinthilaikkeerai (Tamil); Earaghatta yele balli, Pundi balli (Kannada); Kali-vel (Marathi)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Common on thickets on hills up to 1400m.
• Flower, Fruit : May-October
• Collection Locality : Devarayandurga State Forest (Tumkur)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dharwad district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, UMK, Uttara Kannada district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Aurangabad district, Mumbai Suburban district, Buldhana district, Chandrapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Coimbatore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, 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; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharastra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Cyphostemma auriculatum. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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