- Family : APOCYNACEAE
(Dogbane Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KARONDA FAMILY (करौंदा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Apocynaceae
- Synonym(s) : Beluttakaka grandieriana Pierre; Beluttakaka griffithii (Hook.f.) Kuntze; Beluttakaka macrophylla (G.Don) Kuntze; Cercocoma macrantha Teijsm. & Binn.; Chonemorpha blancoi Merr.; Chonemorpha elliptica Merr. & Rolfe; Chonemorpha grandiflora G.Don; Chonemorpha griffithii Hook.f.; Chonemorpha macrantha Pit.; Chonemorpha penangensis Ridl.; Chonemorpha rheedei Ridl.; Chonemorpha valvata Chatterjee; Echites fragrans Moon; Echites grandiflorus Roth; Echites grandis Wall.; Echites latifolius Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Echites macranthus Spreng.; Echites macrophyllus Roxb.; Epichysianthus macrophyllus (G.Don) Voigt; Rhynchodia macrantha Pharm. ex Wehmer; Tabernaemontana elliptica Blanco
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Chonemorpha fragrans (Moon) Alston
- Common name : Frangipani vine
- Vernacular name :
- Garbhedare (Hindi)
- Manjinaru (Kannada)
- Murva (Sanskrit)
- Appuppanthadi,Mutthappanthadi, Novunni, Perumkurumba (Malayalam)
- Habit : Liana
- Comments / notes : Tropical evergreen forests, sacred grove in the plains
- Key identification features : A scandent shrub with copious milky latex. Leaves are opposite, large, broadly-oblong, cordate at base and hairy beneath. Flowers are in terminal lax cymes, large, salver-shaped with lobes broadly rounded. Fruit is a follicle.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Collection Nos : HFP 1664, HFP 2863
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Lohit, Kameng, Tirap
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Wimberlygunj
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 208
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 152-154
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Chonemorpha fragrans. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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