Ceropegia candelabrum var. biflora (L.) Ansari

 
  • Family : ASCLEPIADACEAE
    (Milkweed Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AAK FAMILY (आक फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Apocynaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Ceropegia candelabrum subsp. tuberosa (Roxb.) H.Huber; Ceropegia tuberosa Roxb.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ceropegia candelabrum var. biflora (L.) Ansari
  • Common name : Goglet flower
  • Vernacular name :
    • Pulla manda, Manchi manda (Telugu)
  • Habit : Climber
  • Habitat : Tropical dry evergreen forests, Tropical dry deciduous forests
  • Comments / notes : Occasional in semi-evergreen to Tropical moist deciduous forests.
  • Flower, Fruit : August-January
  • Collection Nos : Stevens 773, CJS 14103
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district, Guntur district, Chittoor district,
    • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district
    • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district
    • Odisha : Khurda district, Gajapati district, Jagatsinghpur district, Puri district, Ganjam district
    • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Dharmapuri district, Villipuram district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Dindigul district
  • Native : India, Sri Lanka
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
  • Literature :
    • Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
    • Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Ceropegia candelabrum var. biflora. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Line Drawings

Field Image(s)

Habitat

India Distribution

World Distribution

Creative Commons License
India Flora Online by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.