Spottedheart
Stictocardia tiliifolia
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Found in India
- Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra & more
- Flowering
- November-February
How to identify Spottedheart
Identify Spottedheart by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climbing shrub habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Large flowers with translucent spots on the calyx.
- Confirm leaf shape: Cordate (heart-shaped).
- Confirm flower colour: Purple.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: November-February.
- In India, compare location records such as Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala.
- Confirm it sits within the Convolvulaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Spottedheart.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Stictocardia tiliifolia
- Genus
- Stictocardia
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Habitat
- Along sea coasts and scrub jungles, also grown as garden plant
- Habitat type
- Coastal, Scrub, Cultivated
- Distribution
- Circumtropical and Introduced in the New World
- Found in India
- Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala
- Flowering & fruiting
- November-February
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (LC)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Cordate (heart-shaped)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Spottedheart itself; the rest are typical of the Convolvulaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- PurplerecordedPurple or violet
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Spottedheart itself; the rest are typical of the Convolvulaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Spottedheart
Spottedheart (Stictocardia tiliifolia) belongs to the Convolvulaceae family, where it grows as a climbing shrub. In India it has been recorded in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and 1 other states. It grows in along sea coasts and scrub jungles, also grown as garden plant. Flowering and fruiting run from November to February.
Convolvulaceae
Morning glory family
Spottedheart belongs to the Convolvulaceae family.
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