1316

 

Ichnocarpus frutescens (L.) R. Br.


Synonym

 :

Ichnocarpus frutescens var. frutescens 

Family

 :

Apocynaceae

Local name

 :

Malayalam- Palvalli

English-Black creeper

Flowering and fruiting period

:

August-March

Distribution

:

Indo-Malesia and Australia

Distribution in kerala

:

All Districts

Habitat

:

Moist and dry deciduous forests, also in the plains

Uses

:

Medicinal

Key botanical characters:

.Climbers, branchlets brown-tomentose. Leaves simple, opposite, ovate, apex obtusely acute, base rounded, brown-pubescent below. Flowers in terminal or axillary panicled cymes. Calyx lobes ovate, acute, pubescent. Corolla white, salver shaped, contracted at mouth, hairy inside, throat densely white-villous, lobes twisted, oblong, acuminate. Mericarps follicular, slender, rusty puberulus; seeds many, compressed, crowned with long silky coma.




Comments

Popular posts from this blog