• Family : APOCYNACEAE
  (Dogbane Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KARONDA FAMILY (करौंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Echites caryophyllatus Roxb.; Kamettia caryophyllata (Roxb.) Nicolson & Suresh
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Kamettia caryophyllata (Roxb.) Nicolson & Suresh
• Vernacular name : Narumarathivu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen forests, Semi-Evergreen forests and sacred groves
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Dindigul district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Muthumperumal, C 2009. Check List 5(1): 092-111; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg 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=Ellertonia rheedii. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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