- Family : VITACEAE
(Grape Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ANGOOR FAMILY (अंगूर फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : VITACEAE
- Basionym : Cissus setosa Roxb.
- Synonym(s) : Vitis setosa (Roxb.) Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyphostemma setosum (Roxb.) Alston
- Vernacular name : Thalavarana balli (Kannada); Puliaranai, Kangu Kelari (Tamil)
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : Dry deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Common in dry deciduous forests and scrub jungles
- Key identification features : Fleshy herbacious climber
- Flower, Fruit : September-January
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 02/01/2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-267
- Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Anantapur district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, East Godavari district, Anantapur district
- Karnataka : Ballari district, Mysuru district
- Maharashtra : Aurangabad district, Beed district, Buldhana district, Jalna district, Nagpur district, Parbhani district, Pune district
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- Native : India, Sri Lanka
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats 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; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharastra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
- 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 setosum. Downloaded on 3 June 2025.
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