- Family : LEEACEAE
(Leea Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KUKUR JIHWA FAMILY (कुकुर जिह्वा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Vitaceae
- Basionym : Phytolacca asiatica L.
- Synonym(s) : Leea asiatica (L.) Ridsdale; Leea crispa L.; Leea herbacea Buch.-Ham.; Leea pumila Kurz
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Leea asiatica (L.) Ridsdale
- Vernacular name :
- Vataal mara (Kannada)
- Jeera vali (Sanskrit)
- Nalugu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Moist deciduous and Tropical evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : On slopes of hills
- Flower, Fruit : May-November
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruchirapalli district
- Chattisgarh : Raipur district
- Native : Indian subcontinent
- World Distribution : Indo-Malesia and China
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1
- J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Verma, D.M., et al 1985. Flora of Raipur, Durg and Rajnandagaon. Fl. of Ind. Ser. 3. pp. 78
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 -Flora of Coorg District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
- N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- N.P. Singh & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Leea asiatica. Downloaded on 13 December 2024.
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