Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Climber
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📚 Overview
Description
Stem cylindrical, 3-7 mm in diameter, green, glabrous, internodes 10-20 cm long. Flowers sweet-scented in sessile many-flowered terminal umbels. Pedicels 6-12 mm long, pubescent. Bracts minute, linear-lanceolate. Sepals 5, 1-1.5 mm long, subacute, margin membranous, glandular inside near the base. Corolla campanulate, pale greenish white, divided almost to the base, lobes c.5 mm long, ovate-oblong, subacute. Outer corona crenately 10-lobed, lobes of the inner corona thick, fleshy obtuse, longer than the staminal column and concealing the anther. Staminal column very short. Pollen-masses compressed, clavate. Follicles 10-13 cm x 8 mm, lanceolate, tapering at both ends, slightly diverging when 2 together. Seeds 3-6 mm long, flattened ovate. Coma 1.8 cm long.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Dry deciduous forests and scrub jungles
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
India and Myanmar
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Idukki, Wayanad
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Sarcostemma acidum (Roxb.) Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 542. 1845.
- Sarcostemma brevistigma Wight & Arn. in Wight, Contrib. 59. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 26. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 838(589). 1923.
- Euphorbia viminalis L., Sp. Pl. 452. 1753.
- Sarcostemma viminale (L.) R. Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 464. 1810; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 534. 2009.
- Asclepias acida Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 31. 1832.
Information Listing > References
- Sarcostemma acidum (Roxb.) Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 542. 1845.
- Sarcostemma brevistigma Wight & Arn. in Wight, Contrib. 59. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 26. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 838(589). 1923.
- Euphorbia viminalis L., Sp. Pl. 452. 1753.
- Sarcostemma viminale (L.) R. Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 464. 1810; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 534. 2009.
- Asclepias acida Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 31. 1832.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Gentianales |
| Family | Apocynaceae |
| Genus | Cynanchum |
| Species | Cynanchum viminale |
| Infraspecies | Cynanchum viminale subsp. viminale |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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