Habit: A large much branched climber, to 10m.
🗒 Synonyms
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🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Flower
In axillary, umbellate racemes; greenish-white. Flowering from March-April and May-July.
Fruit
A stout, paired follicle, pointed above, inflated at base; seeds obovoid, flat, with silky coma.
Field tips
Bark purplish-red, peeling off in papery flakes. Latex white. Seeds with white silky hairs.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite-decussate
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Oblong-elliptic
Leaf Apex
Obtusely acuminate
Leaf Base
Acute
Leaf Margin
Entire
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Miscellaneous Details
Caterpillars of the common Crow butterflies feed on this plant.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Very common, ready colonizer. On cleared slopes at forest border. Foothills to 1300m. Found in the Indian subcontinent.
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Description
Common along the forest paths in deciduous and semi-evergreen forests from foothills to 1200m. India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar to S.andW.China.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Gentianales |
| Family | Asclepiadaceae |
| Genus | Not assigned |
| Species | Cryptolepis buchanani Roemer et Schultes |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
