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Sarcostemma viminale
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Family:
ASCLEPIADACEAE
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Citation: Sarcostemma viminale (L.) R. Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 464. 1810; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 534. 2009.
Euphorbia viminalis L., Sp. Pl. 452. 1753.
Sarcostemma acidum (Roxb.) Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 542. 1845.
Asclepias acida Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 31. 1832.
Sarcostemma brevistigma Wight & Arn. in Wight, Contrib. 59. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 26. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 838(589). 1923.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Somam, Somavalli, Somalatha, Vayastha
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Moon creeper, Moon plant
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Description:
Stem cylindrical, 3-7 mm in diameter, green, glabrous, internodes 10-20 cm long. Flowers sweet-scented in sessile many-flowered terminal umbels. Pedicels 6-12 mm long, pubescent. Bracts minute, linear-lanceolate. Sepals 5, 1-1.5 mm long, subacute, margin membranous, glandular inside near the base. Corolla campanulate, pale greenish white, divided almost to the base, lobes c.5 mm long, ovate-oblong, subacute. Outer corona crenately 10-lobed, lobes of the inner corona thick, fleshy obtuse, longer than the staminal column and concealing the anther. Staminal column very short. Pollen-masses compressed, clavate. Follicles 10-13 cm x 8 mm, lanceolate, tapering at both ends, slightly diverging when 2 together. Seeds 3-6 mm long, flattened ovate. Coma 1.8 cm long.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-May
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District(s):
Idukki, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests and scrub jungles
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Distribution:
India and Myanmar
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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