• Family : VITACEAE
  (Grape Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANGOOR FAMILY (अंगूर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VITACEAE
• Basionym : Vitis lanceolaria (Roxb.) Wall.
• Synonym(s) : Cissu lanceolaria Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Tetrastigma lanceolarium (Roxb.) Planch.
• Vernacular name : Perumuruli (Tamil); Gummadi baddu (Telugu)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : In slopes of hills at low elevations
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills to 1600m. Also found in sholas.
• Flower, Fruit : March-August
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district
  • Odisha : Bolangir district, Sambalpur district, Koraput district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Malay Peninsula
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; 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.
• 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=Tetrastigma lanceolarium. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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