Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet

 
  • Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
    (Morning-Glory Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : KALADANA FAMILY (कालादाना फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Convolvulaceae
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet
  • Common name : Railway Creeper, Caito Morning glory, Railroad-creeper, Mile-a-minute
  • Vernacular name :
    • Bekkina hejje gida (Kannada)
    • Kolambipoo (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Liana
  • Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
  • Comments / notes : On hill plains to 1000m and on wayside thickets. Sometimes cultivated in gardens
  • Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district
    • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Bengaluru district, Hassan district
    • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
    • Maharashtra : Satara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district
    • Odisha : Odisha
    • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
    • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
    • Punjab : Punjab
  • Native : Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, China, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Libe
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, China, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Palestine, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
    • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
    • Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
    • Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District
    • Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
    • N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
    • Manjunath et al., 2003 - Flora of Davanagere
    • 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=Ipomoea cairica. Downloaded on 14 December 2024.

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