Chuttithiruthali / Little Bell
Ipomoea triloba
- Habit
- Climber
- Found in India
- Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat & more
- Flowering
- September-November
How to identify Chuttithiruthali
Identify Chuttithiruthali 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: Small flowers, weedy habit.
- Confirm leaf shape: Cordate.
- Confirm leaf margin: Lobed.
- Confirm flower colour: Pink.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: September-November.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Ipomoea triloba
- Genus
- Ipomoea
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Habit
- Climber
- Habitat
- Degraded forest areas, also in the plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- Tropical America, now throughout the tropics
- Found in India
- Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chandigarh, Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Delhi, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-November
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- CordaterecordedHeart-shaped, with a notch at the base.“This is a fast-growing, vining, annual herb producing long, thin stems with ivy-like, petioled, heart-shaped leaves 2.5–6 centimeters (0.98–2.36 in) long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf margin
- LobedrecordedThe edge is divided into rounded or pointed sections that don't reach the midrib.“The leaves sometimes, but not always, have three lobes.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Chuttithiruthali itself; the rest are typical of the Convolvulaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Pinkrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Chuttithiruthali itself; the rest are typical of the Convolvulaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Bengali
- ঘণ্টি কলমি ghanti kalami, ঘণ্টি কলমি
- Kannada
- ಮೂಗುತಿ ಬಳ್ಳಿ muguthi balli, ವಜಿಗಂಧ vajigandha
- Malayalam
- ചുട്ടിതിരുതാളി chuttithiruthali, തിരുതാളി thiruthaali
- Marathi
- इवळी भोंवरी ivali bhonvari, इवली भोवरी
About Chuttithiruthali
A member of the Convolvulaceae family, Little Bell (Ipomoea triloba) is a climber. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat and 15 other states. It grows in degraded forest areas, also in the plains. Flowering and fruiting run from September to November.
Convolvulaceae
Morning glory family
Chuttithiruthali belongs to the Convolvulaceae family.
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