• Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
  (Morning-Glory Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KALADANA FAMILY (कालादाना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CONVOLVULACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Common name : Purple convolvulus
• Vernacular name : Vettaichedi, Kanvalipoo (Tamil); Nettarulu (Telugu)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests and grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 750m and on degraded slopes.
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R, Raja K.Swamy, Rajasri Ray
• Collection Date : 12/09/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-48
• Collection Locality : Pungalam RF., Jawadhu Hills, Tiruvannamalai district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Dharmapuri district, Salem district, Coimbatore district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
• 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=Argyreia cuneata. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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