Growth Form

Pollinators

A habitat is an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant, or other type of organism. The term typically refers to the zone in which the organism lives and where it can find food, shelter, protection and mates for reproduction. It is the natural environment in which an organism lives, or the physical environment that surrounds a species population.

Habitat

Rarity

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IUCN Red List Category

Geoprivacy is when the geographic location is kept private. This is enabled for species which have their conservation status marked to be at risk (IUCN Redlist: Critically Endangered or Endangered) or is a species threatened with extinction, whose trade is prohibited (CITES: Appendix I). When the Geoprivacy trait is enabled, observations of that species will have their locations automatically obscured.

Geoprivacy

CITES Status

System of Medicines Used In

<i>Gomphocarpus physocarpus </i>E. Meyer 

Plants

English

Swan Plant

Asclepias brasiliensis (Fourn.) Schltr.

Asclepias denticulata Schltr.

Asclepias physocarpa (E. Mey.) Schltr.

Asclepias semilunata N. E. Br.

Gomphocarpus brasiliensis Fourn.

Gomphocarpus semilunatus A. Rich.

Plantae

Tracheophyta

Magnoliopsida

Gentianales

Apocynaceae

Gomphocarpus

Gomphocarpus physocarpus E. Meyer

The Western Ghats

PlantsIndia

synonym	Asclepias brasiliensis (Fourn.) Schltr.
synonym	Asclepias denticulata Schltr.
synonym	Asclepias physocarpa (E. Mey.) Schltr.
synonym	Asclepias semilunata N. E. Br.
synonym	Gomphocarpus brasiliensis Fourn.
synonym	Gomphocarpus semilunatus A. Rich.

Attributions	G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Contributors	Sanjana Julias Thilakar G Renu D. Narasimhan
Status	UNDER_CREATION
Licenses	CC_BY
References

Attributions	G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Contributors	Sanjana Julias Thilakar G Renu D. Narasimhan
Status	UNDER_CREATION
Licenses	CC_BY
References

Attributions	G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Contributors	G Renu D. Narasimhan Sanjana Julias Thilakar
Status	UNDER_CREATION
Licenses	CC_BY
References

Root	Root
Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Tracheophyta
Class	Magnoliopsida
Order	Gentianales
Family	Apocynaceae
Genus	Gomphocarpus
Species	Gomphocarpus physocarpus E. Meyer