• Family : PASSIFLORACEAE
  (Passion-Flower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KRISHNA KAMAL FAMILY (कृष्णा कमल फैमिली )
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PASSIFLORACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Passiflora alba Link & Otto
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Passiflora subpeltata Ortega
• Common name : White Passion Flower
• Vernacular name : Thorupattaankaai, Malaikovai (Tamil)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Degraded forest areas
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills up to 1400m on wayside, thickets and often near habitations.
• Flower, Fruit : September-May
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Kottayam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district
• Native : South America
• World Distribution : Widely Naturalized in tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Muthumperumal, C 2009. Check List 5(1): 092-111; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Passiflora subpeltata. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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