Brown-Flowered Ipecac
Tylophora fasciculata
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu & more
- Flowering
- April-December
How to identify Brown-Flowered Ipecac
Identify Brown-Flowered Ipecac by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a undershrub habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Flowers in tight bundled clusters.
- Confirm leaf shape: Broad oval.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow-green.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: April-December.
- In India, compare location records such as Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Jammu & Kashmir and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Asclepiadaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Brown-Flowered Ipecac.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Tylophora fasciculata
- Genus
- Tylophora
- Family
- Asclepiadaceae
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Habitat
- Dry deciduous forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- Sri Lanka, India, Nepal
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Jammu & Kashmir, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat, Kerala, Punjab, Assam, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Ladakh
- Flowering & fruiting
- April-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Broad ovalrecorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Brown-Flowered Ipecac itself; the rest are typical of the Asclepiadaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellow-greenrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Follicle
Characters marked “recorded” are for Brown-Flowered Ipecac itself; the rest are typical of the Asclepiadaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Brown-Flowered Ipecac
Brown-Flowered Ipecac (Tylophora fasciculata) belongs to the Asclepiadaceae family, where it grows as a low shrub. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and 18 other states. It grows in dry deciduous forests. Flowering and fruiting run from April to December.
Asclepiadaceae
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Brown-Flowered Ipecac belongs to the Asclepiadaceae family.
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