• Family : LILIACEAE
  (Lily Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BACHNAG FAMILY (बचनाग फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ASPARAGACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Asparagus racemosus Willd.
• Vernacular name : Pilli Teegalu (Telugu); Shatavari, Ashwal, Satavari (Marathi)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in moist deciduous forests of Visakhapatnam
• Flower, Fruit : June-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Lankapakalu, Visakhapatnam (Vishakapatnam district)
  • Karnataka : Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
• Literature : Pullaiah, T. & Karuppusamy, S., 2008. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 5; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district
• 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=Asparagus racemosus var. javanicus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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