- 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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