✿Hippocrateaceae · Salacia
Dhavasi / Oblong Leaf Salacia
Salacia oblonga
Climbing shrub
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Found in India
- Goa, Kerala, Karnataka & more
- Flowering
- December-May
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Salacia oblonga
- Genus
- Salacia
- Family
- Hippocrateaceae
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Habitat
- Semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka
- Found in India
- Goa, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- December-May
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- OblongrecordedLonger than wide with roughly parallel sides, the ends rounded.“Oblong leaf salacia is a climbing shrub with densely warty branchlets.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Characters marked “recorded” are for Dhavasi itself; the rest are typical of the Hippocrateaceae family.
Local Names
- Tamil
- பொங்கொரந்தி Ponkoranti
- Telugu
- అంకుడు చెట్టు Ankudu Chettu, ఎర్ర దొండ Erra Donda
- Kannada
- ಏಕನಾಯಕ Ekanaayaka
- Malayalam
- പൊൻകൊരണ്ടി Ponkorandi
- Marathi
- धवसी Dhavasi
About Dhavasi
A member of the Hippocrateaceae family, Oblong Leaf Salacia (Salacia oblonga) is a climbing shrub. In India it has been recorded in Goa, Kerala, Karnataka and 2 other states. It grows in semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests. Flowering and fruiting run from December to May.
Botanical family
Hippocrateaceae
Salacia Family
Dhavasi belongs to the Hippocrateaceae family.
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