• 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) : Chilocarpus denudatus Blume
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Comments / notes : Not common; found growing in evergreen forests
• Key identification features : A large climber with milky latex
• Flower, Fruit : March-August
• Collection Nos : HFP 1487, HFP 1539
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India, Malayan Peninsula
• World Distribution : Indo-Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Chilocarpus atroviridis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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