• Family : VITACEAE
  (Grape Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANGOOR FAMILY (अंगूर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VITACEAE
• Basionym : Vitis latifolia Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ampelocissus latifolia (Roxb.) Planch.
• Common name : Wild Grape, Jungle angoor, Jungle grave vine
• Vernacular name : Pani bel (Hindi); Kaadu drakshi (Kannada); Bedasa tiga, Bedela tiga (Telugu); Panikacho, Paninoha, Paniamoha, Dibroi, Kanjinoi (Oria); Chembravalli, Karantavalli, Valiyapirappitikha (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Near streams in Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in hill forests. Fruits are edible, often eaten by birds and mammals.
• Key identification features : Climbing shrub
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, East Godavari district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Kolar district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Kottayam district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district, Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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 latifolia. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Field Image(s)