Genianthus laurifolius (Roxb.) Hook.f.

 
  • Family : ASCLEPIADACEAE
    (Milkweed Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AAK FAMILY (आक फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Apocynaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Asclepias micrantha Roxb.; Asclepias laurifolia Roxb.; Secamone laurifolia (Hook.f.) K.Schum.; Toxocarpus crassifolius Dalzell & A.Gibson; Toxocarpus laurifolius Wight & Arn.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Genianthus micranthus (Roxb.) I.M.Turner
  • Habit : Climber
  • Comments / notes : Occasional in forests of Western Ghats.
  • Key identification features : Twining shrubs, glabrous; Leaves broadly elliptic, obtusely acuminate, base acute, glabrous; Inflorescence rusty tomentose, much branched, many-flowered cyme; Flowers both sessile and pedicellate, one small, bearded and other large; Follicles slender, terete, straight.
  • Flower, Fruit : October-December
  • Collection Nos : CJS 11469, KFP 106228
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
    • 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, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : W. India, Sikkim to Indo-China
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 170
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Genianthus laurifolius. Downloaded on 19 February 2025.

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