Botanical name: Vigna vexillata (L.) A. Rich. Local name: Kattupayar Habitat: Moist deciduous forests Flowering & fruiting: January to April Distribution: Paleotropics Description: the wild pea is a slender climber but fairly strong twiner, stems usually clothed with spreading silky hairs. The long trailing vines have narrow pointed bean-like leaves. The flowers are pink or […]
Botanical name: Ficus laevis Blume Local name: Peyathi Habitat: Evergreen and shola forests Flowering & fruiting: August to April Distribution: Southern Western Ghats Description: large climbers with leaves of 19 x 12 cm long and broadly ovate, apex acuminate, base shallowly cordate, subcoriaceous and basally 3-nerved. The petiole is of 7 cm, receptacle cauliflorus and […]
Botanical name: Amomum cannicarpum (Wight) Benth. ex Baker Local name: Kattuperalam Habitat: Evergreen forests Flowering & fruiting: March to May Distribution: Western Ghats Description: leafy stem with 2-3 m length and it is erect, straight and loosely clumped. The rootstock is horizontal and much branched. The flowers are one or two in a bract; obtuse […]
Botanical name: Cucumis silentvalleyi (Manilal, Sabu& Mathew) Ghebret. & Thulin. Local name: Kattuvellari Habitat: Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests Flowering & fruiting: July to November Distribution: Southern Western Ghats (Kerala) Description: It is a Creeper with scabrid stems. The Leaves are of 4.5 x 5.5 cm long, obtusely 5-angular, cordate at base crenate and scabrid. […]