• 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 intermedia Wight
• Habit : Climber
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills up to 1200m. Semi-evergreen forests and scrub jungles
• Flower, Fruit : June-December
• Collector(s) Name : M.C Lukose
• Collection Locality : Moozhiyar- Kakki road, Pathanamthitta; Muthanga R.F.,Wynad dsitrict
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Wayanad district
  • Odisha : Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Theni district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work); 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 intermedia. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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