- Family : APOCYNACEAE
(Dogbane Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KARONDA FAMILY (करौंदा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Apocynaceae
- Synonym(s) : Anodendron lanceolatum King & Gamble; Anodendron manubriatum (Wall. ex Steud.) Merr.; Anodendron moluccanum Miq.; Anodendron rhinosporum Thwaites; Anodendron sutepense Kerr; Anodendron tenuiflorum (Miq.) Miq.; Echites manubriatus Wall. ex Steud.; Echites paniculatus Roxb.; Echites parviflorus Roxb.; Echites polyanthus Wall.; Echites trichotomus Desf.; Epigynum parviflorum (Roxb.) Hook.f.; Gymnema nepaulense J.Graham; Ichnocarpus paniculatus Moon; Strophanthus balansae Franch.; Tabernaemontana tenuiflora Miq.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Anodendron parviflorum (Roxb.) I.M.Turner
- Common name : Lantani
- Vernacular name :
- Maniballi (Kannada)
- Sarakodi (Tamil)
- Kakkakodi (Malayalam)
- Habit : Liana
- Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, Tropical dry deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Rare in moist and cool ravines. Grows on brown soil at higher elevations
- Key identification features : Large, glabrous, woody climbers; Leaves large, elliptic or oblong, obtusely cuspidate, thinly coriaceous; Inflorescence terminal, panicled cyme, repeatedly trichotomously branched; Flowers yellowish white; Follicles divaricate, glabrous; Seeds compressed, beaked.
- Flower, Fruit : February-April;October
- Collector(s) Name : K. Sankara Rao, Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy& Navendu Page
- Collection Date : 23/02/2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0459
- Collection Locality : RPRC Garden, Bhubaneswar, Khurda district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Visakhapatnam district
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Lonavala
- Odisha : Koraput district, Kalahandi district, Kandhamal district, Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Madurai district, Salem district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Tirap
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Java to Philippines
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Flora of Udupi
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- 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: 207
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 151
- Read more :
- Permalink : http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Anodendron paniculatum
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Anodendron paniculatum. Downloaded on 23 January 2026.
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