Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Climber
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Braunea menispermoides Willd. |
| synonym | Cocculus acuminatus DC. |
| synonym | Cocculus polycarpus Wall. |
| synonym | Cocculus radiatus DC. |
| synonym | Menispermum acuminatum Lam. |
| synonym | Menispermum glabrum Koen. ex Willd. |
| synonym | Menispermum polycarpon Roxb. |
| synonym | Menispermum radiatum Lam. |
| synonym | Tiliacora abnormalis Miers |
| synonym | Tiliacora cuspidiformis Miers |
| synonym | Tiliacora fraternaria Miers |
| synonym | Tiliacora racemosa Colebr. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Climbing shrubs; stems striate, sparsely puberulous or glabrous. Leaves alternate, ovate or lanceolate, truncate, cordate, rarely acute at base, acuminate at apex, 8-14 x 3.5- 8 cm, chartaceous, glabrous, 3-5 nerved at base; petioles 1.5-3 cm long, sulcate, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary, panicled, 3.5-10 cm long, pubescent. Male flowers 2-7 at apex of inflorescence, yellow; sepals 6 in 2 rows; inner ones broadly elliptic, glabrous; petals 6, obovate, glabrous; stamens 6, cylindric. Female flower solitary; sepals and petals as in male ones; carpels 8-12, glabrous, on stalked puberulous gynophore. Drupes on branched carpophores, oblong to obovoid, 10-15 x 6-7 mm, glabrous, red when ripe; endocarp reticulate.
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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Habit: Climbing Shrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats , Moist Deciduous Forests
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Moist deciduous forests and also sacred groves in the plains
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Maharashtra: Konkan, Pune
Kerala: Alapuzha, Kollam, Kottayam, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Pathanamthitta, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Global Distribution
India, Sri Lanka and South East Asia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Kozhikkode, Kottayam, Alappuzha, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Wayanad, Kannur
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Menispermum acuminatum Poir. in Lam., Encycl. 4: 101. 1797.
- Tiliacora racemosa Coleb., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 13: 67. 1821; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 99. 1872.
- Tiliacora acuminata (Poir.) Miers ex Hook.f. & Thoms., Fl. Ind. 187.1855; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 28(20).1915; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 30. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 67. 1984; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 62. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 12. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 52. 1990; A. Pramanik in B. D. Sharma et al., Fl. India 1: 343. 1993; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 52. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 37. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 50. 1997; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 19. 2000; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 52. 2005; M. Mohanan in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 191. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 82. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 107. 2009.
- Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
Information Listing > References
- Menispermum acuminatum Poir. in Lam., Encycl. 4: 101. 1797.
- Tiliacora racemosa Coleb., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 13: 67. 1821; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 99. 1872.
- Tiliacora acuminata (Poir.) Miers ex Hook.f. & Thoms., Fl. Ind. 187.1855; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 28(20).1915; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 30. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 67. 1984; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 62. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 12. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 52. 1990; A. Pramanik in B. D. Sharma et al., Fl. India 1: 343. 1993; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 52. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 37. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 50. 1997; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 19. 2000; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 52. 2005; M. Mohanan in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 191. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 82. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 107. 2009.
- Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Ranunculales |
| Family | Menispermaceae |
| Genus | Tiliacora |
| Species | Tiliacora acuminata (Lam.) Hook. f. & Thoms. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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