• Family : APOCYNACEAE
  (Dogbane Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KARONDA FAMILY (करौंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Beaumontia jerdoniana Wight
• Common name : Nepal Trumpet Flowers
• Vernacular name : Swethapushpi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : November-December
• Collector(s) Name : Saldanha, B. Gurudev Singh & Ajay Kumar
• Collection Date : 26-01-1981
• Collection Nos : KFP 12612
• Collection Locality : Shiradi Ghat (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Coorg; 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=Beaumontia jerdoniana. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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