Panchpatia / Tiger's Foot Creeper
Ipomoea pes-tigridis
Also known as Tiger's Foot, Bindwee, Cupid's Flower
- Habit
- Climber
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Panchpatia
Identify Panchpatia by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climber habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Hairy deeply lobed leaves (tiger's foot).
- Confirm leaf shape: Palmately lobed (hand-like), hairy.
- Confirm leaf margin: Lobed.
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Gujarat and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Ipomoea pes-tigridis
- Genus
- Ipomoea
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Habit
- Climber
- Habitat
- Deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- Tropical Africa & Tropical Asia
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Gujarat, Kerala, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry, Bihar, Daman & Diu, Goa, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Palmately lobed (hand-like), hairyrecorded
- Leaf margin
- LobedrecordedThe edge is divided into rounded or pointed sections that don't reach the midrib.“The leaves are palmately lobed, 6–10 cm (2.4–3.9 in) diameter, with 5-9 lobes on edge of the leaf;” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Panchpatia itself; the rest are typical of the Convolvulaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Panchpatia itself; the rest are typical of the Convolvulaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- पंचपतिया Panchpatia
- Bengali
- অংগুলী লতা Anguli lota
- Tamil
- Pulichovadi, Punaikkirai, புலிச்சுவடி
- Kannada
- ಕಾಮಲತೆ Kaamalate
- Malayalam
- Pulichuvatu, പുലിച്ചുവടി
- Marathi
- वाघपदी Vagh-padi
About Panchpatia
A member of the Convolvulaceae family, Tiger's foot creeper (Ipomoea pes-tigridis) is a climber. In India it has been recorded in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and 20 other states. It grows in deciduous forests, also in the plains. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Convolvulaceae
Morning glory family
Panchpatia belongs to the Convolvulaceae family.
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