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Ampelocissus indica

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Planchon

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• India
• Sri Lanka

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• coastal
• forest. Fruit edible
• medicinal uses

Flowering Times

• Apr
• Jun
• Oct Dec (Sri Lanka)

Fruiting Times

Semi-woody slender perennial climber with floccose-woolly stems & leaves & simple tendrils, paniculate cymes to 100mm long of greenish-purple flowers in reddish woolly tomentum, purple-red berry 18mm long, serrated leaves pubescent beneath

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• MPSR
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• Botanicus