- Family : MENISPERMACEAE
(Moonseed Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GILOY FAMILY (गिलोय फैमिली
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Menispermaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Anamirta cocculus (L.) Wight & Arn.
- Common name : Fish Berry, Crow Killer, Levant berries
- Vernacular name :
- Kakmari (Hindi)
- Kakamari, Kagamari, Chippothli (Kannada)
- Kakamari, Koditige (Telugu)
- Kalabiti Nai (Oria)
- Kakadani (Sanskrit)
- Kakaphal, Kakmari, Vatoli (Marathi)
- Garaphala, Kaipalathumka, Kollakkaya, Nanchuvalli, Pechuvalli, Pettumarunna, Polla, Pollakai (Malayalam)
- Habit : Liana
- Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, Tropical evergreen forests, also sacred groves in the plains
- Comments / notes : Rare. Hill forests above 600m
- Key identification features : Flowers in panicles on old stems
- Flower, Fruit : August-May
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Gandhamardan Hills (Bargarh district), Berbera (Bolangir district), Khurda district
- Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Villipuram district, Dindigul district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Dharmapuri district, Tiruchirapalli district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Indo-China, Incl. Philippines and Newguinea
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Flora of Udupi
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Anamirta cocculus. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.
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