• Family : APOCYNACEAE
  (Dogbane Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KARONDA FAMILY (करौंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APOCYNACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Chonemorpha grandiflora ( Roth ) M.R.Almeida & S.M.Almeida; Chonemorpha griffithii Hook.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Chonemorpha fragrans (Moon) Alston
• Common name : Frangipani vine
• Vernacular name : Garbhedare (Hindi); Manjinaru (Kannada); Murva (Sanskrit); Appuppanthadi,Mutthappanthadi, Novunni, Perumkurumba (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Comments / notes : Evergreen forests, sacred grove in the plains
• Key identification features : A scandent shrub with copious milky latex. Leaves are opposite, large, broadly-oblong, cordate at base and hairy beneath. Flowers are in terminal lax cymes, large, salver-shaped with lobes broadly rounded. Fruit is a follicle.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collection Nos : HFP 1664, HFP 2863
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district
• Native : Indo-Malayan
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Chonemorpha fragrans. Downloaded on 5 May 2024.

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