• Family : ASCLEPIADACEAE
  (Milkweed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AAK FAMILY (आक फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ceropegia candelabrum L.
• Vernacular name : Bitharige (Kannada); Nimmatai, Langatai, Bachalimanda, Pullamanda, Manchimanda, Tiyyamanda (Telugu); Nagathunba, Nota-nodhen-valli, Kammanamkizhangu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Open deciduous and scrub forests
• Comments / notes : Common on hills up to 1200m, in scrub jungles and all over dry deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-March
• Collector(s) Name : K.Sankara Rao, Arun Singh R & Raja K.Swamy; Arun Singh R & Raja K.Swamy
• Collection Date : 19-11-2014; 28-11-2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0193; HJCB-0246
• Collection Locality : Palamner forest, Chittoor district (AP); Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Prakasam district, Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Chittoor district, Srikakulam district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; 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=Ceropegia candelabrum var. candelabrum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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