• Family : PASSIFLORACEAE
  (Passion-Flower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KRISHNA KAMAL FAMILY (कृष्णा कमल फैमिली )
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PASSIFLORACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Adenia hondala (Gaertn.) W.J.de Wilde
• Common name : Hondala
• Vernacular name : Karimuthukku, Muthukku, Modekka, Thannikkeera (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Rare
• Flower, Fruit : March-October
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : KFP 2093, CJS 16759
• Collection Locality : Vanagur (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district)
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Adenia hondala. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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