Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Climber
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📚 Overview
Description
Climber, scabrous. Leaves 6-8 x 4-6 cm, ovate, entire, apex acute, base truncate to subcordate, 5-ribbed, scabrid; petiole 4 cm long. Flowers solitary; pedicels 3 cm long; bracteoles 1.5 cm long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, mucronate; sepals of 8-16 fibrils; corolla white, 4 cm across, tube 3 cm long, lobes 3.5 cm; filaments glandular hispid at base. Capsule 1 cm across, glabrous, beak 1.5 cm long, acute.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Habit: A slender twiner, to 6m.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Flower
Solitary, axillary; white, fragrant. Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
A depressed-globose capsule, scabrid, extended into a sword-shape apical beak; seeds 4, globose, reticulate. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
Branchlets sparsely sericeous. Leaves 3-5-nerved from base.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite-decussate
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Broadly elliptic-ovate
Leaf Apex
Acute-apiculate
Leaf Base
Truncate-subcordate
Leaf Margin
Entire-distantly serrate
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Deciduous forests, also in the plains
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Description
Very common along forest borders, roadsides and scrub jungles from 400-1200m. India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Indo-China and W.China.
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Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia and Australia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Thunbergia laevis Nees in Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 77. 1832.
- Thunbergia fragrans Roxb. var. laevis (Nees) Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 391. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1007(705). 1924; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 310. 1984.
- Thunbergia fragrans Roxb., Pl. Corm. t. 67. 1795; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 390. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1007(707). 1924; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 212. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 600. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 362. 1990; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 9, 15; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 350. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 527. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 240. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 308. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 239. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 389. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 555. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 634. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- Thunbergia laevis Nees in Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 77. 1832.
- Thunbergia fragrans Roxb. var. laevis (Nees) Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 391. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1007(705). 1924; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 310. 1984.
- Thunbergia fragrans Roxb., Pl. Corm. t. 67. 1795; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 390. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1007(707). 1924; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 212. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 600. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 362. 1990; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 9, 15; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 350. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 527. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 240. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 308. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 239. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 389. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 555. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 634. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Lamiales |
| Family | Acanthaceae |
| Genus | Thunbergia |
| Species | Thunbergia fragrans |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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