- Family : ARACEAE
(Arum Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Araceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pothos scandens L.
- Vernacular name :
- Arakade beru (Kannada)
- Anapparuva, Paruvakodi, Paruval (Malayalam)
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, waste places and sacred groves
- Flower, Fruit : May-November
- Collector(s) Name : B.R.Ramesh, Shivaprakash, S.Udaya Kumar; H.O.Saxena, M.Brahmam
- Collection Date : 7-11-1981, 12-11-1980
- Collection Nos : KFP 14091, RRL 4203
- Collection Locality : Near dam site, Uttara Kannada district
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Shivamogga district, Chikkamagaluru district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Puri district, Keonjhar district, Angul district
- Chattisgarh : Bilaspur
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Lohit, Siang, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Comoros, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Comoros, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 237
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pothos scandens. Downloaded on 14 October 2024.
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