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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.