• Family : APOCYNACEAE
  (Dogbane Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KARONDA FAMILY (करौंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Apocynaceae
• Synonym(s) : Quirivelia frutescens (L.) M.R.Almeida & S.M.Almeida
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ichnocarpus frutescens (L.) W.T.Aiton
• Common name : Slender Dog-Bane, Black creeper
• Vernacular name :
  • Ulpalasaaribaa (Sanskrit)
  • Kaalidhudi, Dudhi, Dudilata (Hindi)
  • Gauri balli, Koogal balli (Kannada)
  • Palvalli (Malayalam)
  • Udarkodi, Manipilankodi (Tamil)
  • Illukatte, Nallateege, Karrativva, Mani tivva, Korampala, Kaarampala, Palativva (Telugu)
  • Madhobi, Soyamnoi, Tapar lohar, Sugandhi-mal, Swanati, Dudilata, Shymalata (Oria)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests and plains
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains to 1100m, in scrub jungles, deciduous forests and road clearings on thickets and bushes. A ready colonizer.
• Key identification features : An evergreen woody twiner with milky sap. Leaves are elliptic-oblong or lance-shaped, tip pointed or tapering, dark green above, and paler beneath. Flowers are borne in many flowered clusters. Flowers are small with wheel-shaped spreading hairy petals, about 1 cm. across. Fruit is a follicle, solitary or paired.
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 13/09/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0034
• Collection Locality : Alangayam R.F., Jawadhu Hills, Tiruvannamalai district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, Kadapa district, Chittoor district, Kurnool district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Bengaluru district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Namakkal district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Villipuram district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Tiruvannamalai district, Sivaganga district, Thoothkudi district
  • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Tirap
  • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Punjab : Punjab
• Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Islands, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Sri La
• World Distribution : Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia to Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature :
  • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
  • Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state
  • Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
  • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
  • Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
  • J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
  • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
  • Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
  • R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
  • R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
  • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
  • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 154-156
• Read more :
  • Plants of the World Online
  • World Flora Online
  • Global Plants on JSTOR
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Ichnocarpus frutescens. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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