✿Vitaceae · Cyphostemma
Harmal / Bristly Wild Grape
Cyphostemma setosum
Climbing shrubMedicinal
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Found in India
- Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
- Flowering
- September-January
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cyphostemma setosum
- Genus
- Cyphostemma
- Family
- Vitaceae
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Habitat
- Dry deciduous forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- India, Sri Lanka
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka
- Found in India
- Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-January
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Palmately compound (leaflets radiate from one point)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Hirsute (coarsely hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Harmal itself; the rest are typical of the Vitaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Typical of the Vitaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Hindi
- हरमल Harmal
- Tamil
- Kangu kelari, Kauri, Pulinaralai
- Kannada
- Talavaranaballi
- Marathi
- Khajgolichavel
About Harmal
Bristly Wild Grape (Cyphostemma setosum) is a climbing shrub in the Vitaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. It grows in dry deciduous forests. Flowering and fruiting run from September to January.
Botanical family
Vitaceae
Grape family
Harmal belongs to the Vitaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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