• 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) : Frerea indica Dalzell
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Among the rocky crevices of hill cliffs from an altitude of 750 to 1347 m.
• Key identification features : Herbs or undershrubs, trailing or pendulous, sap watery; stems fleshy, quadrangular with scars of fallen leaves. Flowers solitary, extra-axillary, pedicels curved; corolla fleshy, yellowish green on outerside, deep purple on inner, with an irregularly shaped yellow spot at the centre of each lobe, divided less than 1/2 way down, fringed with fine, deep purple hairs on the edges; corona staminal, outer bowl-shaped, with five, short, broad, sinuate,-truncate lobes, arising from inner margins of outer corona lobes, 5 linear, truncate lobes, incurved at apex.
• Distribution :
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district
• Endemism : Maharashtra
• Conservation Status : Critically Endangered (CR)
• Literature : N.P. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra state, Dicotyledones. Vol. 2. pp. 361-362. 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=Frerea indica. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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