- Family : RHAMNACEAE
(Buckthorn Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BER FAMILY (बेर फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Rhamnaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Gouania microcarpa DC.
- Habit : Liana
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Common in wet places in the forests of Western Ghats.
- Key identification features : A large, unarmed, Climbing shrub with extra axillary tendrils
- Flower, Fruit : October-March
- Collection Nos : KFP 5279, CJS 16215
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Ratnagiri district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district, Theni district
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia and Indonesia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Gouania microcarpa. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.
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