• Family : DIOSCOREACEAE
  (Yam Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BANA ALU FAMILY (बन आलु)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : DIOSCOREACEAE
• Basionym : Dioscorea nummularia var. belophylla Prain
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dioscorea belophylla (Prain) Voigt ex Haines
• Vernacular name : Narathega (Telugu); Bhat kando, Parlu, Korondi alu, Kunda alu, Tarakanda, Malara (Oria)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : September-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district,
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Angul district, Puri district, Sambalpur district, Cuttack district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Bangladesh
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3. Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur, India.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Dioscorea belophylla. Downloaded on 5 May 2024.

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