Tetracera sarmentosa (L.) Vahl

 
  • Family : DILLENIACEAE
    (Dillenia Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : KARMAL FAMILY (करमल फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Dilleniaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Delima sarmentosa L.; Tetracera delima Forsyth f.; Tetracera asiatica (Lour.) Hoogland
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Tetracera sarmentosa (L.) Vahl
  • Habit : Liana
  • Habitat : Sparse forests, thickets, barren hills.
  • Key identification features : Evergreen woody climbers to 20 m, ramose. Branchlets scabrous, hairy when young, later glabrous. Follicles ca. 1 cm, orange, pericarp thinly leathery and slightly bright when dry, with persistent style. Seed 1, black; aril yellow, fringed, enclosing base of seeds
  • Flower, Fruit : February-May
  • Distribution :
    • Maharashtra : Cultivated
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Sri Lanka to S. China and New Caledonia
  • Literature :
    • Herbarium collected by Patanjali Bhartiya Ayurvigyan AvUm Anusandhan Sansthan, Haridwar, Uttarkhand
    • N.P. Singh & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharastra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
    • Deb, D.B. (1981) The Flora of Tripura State. Vol. 2. Today and Tomorrow’s Printers and Publishers, New Delhi.
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Tetracera sarmentosa. Downloaded on 13 February 2025.

Herbarium Specimen(s)

India Distribution

World Distribution

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