Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Climber
Pergularia daemia (Forsskal) Chiov.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Asclepias daemia Forssk. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit: Climber
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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Pubescent twiner. Leaves to 10 x 8 cm, ovate, caudate-acuminate, base deeply cordate; nerves 4-5 pairs; petiole to 6 cm long. Flowers creamy, 1.5 cm across, in branched cymes, peduncles to 12 cm long, pedicels to 2-3 cm long, slender; sepals short, hispid; corolla campanulate, tube villous at mouth, lobes 0.5 x 0.4 cm, ovate, acute, pubescent; outer corona 2 mm high, membranous, shallowly lobed, lobes emarginate, inner corona lobes vermiform, incurved, winged, 8 mm high. Follicle 6 x 1.5 cm, lanceolate, acuminate, covered with hooked glochidiate bristles.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Growth Form
Shrub
Field Tips
Milky latex present.
Flower
In axillary umbelliform racemes, greenish, foetid. Flowering peaks from July-January.
Fruit
A follicle, paired, curved, basally swollen, echinate. Seeds obovate, wings fringed, coma silky, brownish white. Fruiting throughout the year.
Leaf Apices
Acute
Leaf arrangement
Opposite decussate
Leaf Bases
Chordate
Leaf Margins
Entire
Leaf Types
Simple
Habit
A slender climber.
Keystone Foundation
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Plains to Low Altitude, Dry Localities/ 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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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Scrub jungles and dry deciduous forests, also 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 |
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Plains from the coast, in wastelands, wayside thickets, ready colonizer. Less on hills, to 1000m, common. Tropical Africa, West Asia to South east Asia.
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Description
Global Distribution
Paleotropics
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Thrissur, Idukki, Palakkad, Kollam, Kozhikkode, 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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Maharashtra: Common throughout
Karnataka: Belgaum, Chikmagalur, Coorg, Dharwar, Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, Shimoga
Kerala: Idukki, Kollam, Kozhikode, Palakkad, Thrissur
Tamil Nadu: All districts
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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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
Medicinal
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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Leaves cooked and eaten, for cold and joint pain especially for the elders.
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Asclepias daemia Forssk., Fl. Aeg.-Arab. 51. 1775.
- Daemia extensa (Jacq.) R. Br. in Ait.f., Hort. Kew (ed. 2) 2: 76. 1811; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 20. 1833.
- Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov., Result. Sci. Misc. Stefan. Paoli Somal. Ital. 1: 16. 1916; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 168. 1982; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 291. 1990; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 226. 1995; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 251. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 197. 1999; Goyder, Kew Bull. 61: 251. 2006; Goyder, Kew Bull. 61: 249. 2006; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 533. 2009.
- Cynanchum extensum Jacq., Misc. 2: 353. 1781.
- Pergularia extensa (Jacq.) N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 4: 758. 1908; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 837(588). 1923.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
Information Listing > References
- Asclepias daemia Forssk., Fl. Aeg.-Arab. 51. 1775.
- Daemia extensa (Jacq.) R. Br. in Ait.f., Hort. Kew (ed. 2) 2: 76. 1811; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 20. 1833.
- Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov., Result. Sci. Misc. Stefan. Paoli Somal. Ital. 1: 16. 1916; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 168. 1982; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 291. 1990; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 226. 1995; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 251. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 197. 1999; Goyder, Kew Bull. 61: 251. 2006; Goyder, Kew Bull. 61: 249. 2006; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 533. 2009.
- Cynanchum extensum Jacq., Misc. 2: 353. 1781.
- Pergularia extensa (Jacq.) N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 4: 758. 1908; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 837(588). 1923.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Gentianales |
Family | Apocynaceae |
Genus | Pergularia |
Species | Pergularia daemia (Forsskal) Chiov. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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