• Family : VITACEAE
  (Grape Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANGOOR FAMILY (अंगूर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VITACEAE
• Basionym : Cissus araneosa Dalzell
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ampelocissus araneosa (Dalzell) Gamble
• Common name : Wild Grape
• Vernacular name : Kattuthiratchai (Tamil)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Common at low elevations. On wayside and thickets on hills. Fruits are edible
• Key identification features : Climbing shrub
• Flower, Fruit : July-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; 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; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharastra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur 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=Ampelocissus araneosa. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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