• Family : ASCLEPIADACEAE
  (Milkweed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AAK FAMILY (आक फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
• Basionym : Hutchinia indica Wight & Arn.
• Synonym(s) : Boucerosia indica (Wight & Arn.) Plowes; Desmidorchis indiaca (Wight & Arn.) Kuntze
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Caralluma indica (Wight & Arn.) N.E.Br.
• Vernacular name : Kundalikombu (Kannada)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Dry deciduous forests, Scrub jungle
• Flower, Fruit : October-July (Western Ghats)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Nellore district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Cuddalore district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Tiruvallur district, Villipuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Ramakrishna et al-1995, The Asclepiadaceae and Periplocaceae of Karnataka; Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; India Biodiversity.org Accessed on 11-07-2017.
• 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=Caralluma indica. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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