Red Creeper
Ventilago maderaspatana
- Habit
- Liana
- Found in India
- Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering
- December-April
How to identify Red Creeper
Identify Red Creeper by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a liana habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Reddish young stems, winged seeds (red creeper).
- Confirm leaf shape: Elliptic (widest at middle).
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: December-April.
- In India, compare location records such as Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu.
- Confirm it sits within the Rhamnaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Red Creeper.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Ventilago maderaspatana
- Genus
- Ventilago
- Family
- Rhamnaceae
- Habit
- Liana
- Habitat
- Moist deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Java, Malay Peninsula
- Found in India
- Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- December-April
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Elliptic (widest at middle)recorded
Characters marked “recorded” are for Red Creeper itself; the rest are typical of the Rhamnaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Fruit
- Drupe
Typical of the Rhamnaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Red Creeper
Red creeper (Ventilago maderaspatana) is a woody climber in the Rhamnaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. It grows in moist deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests. Flowering and fruiting run from December to April.
Rhamnaceae
Buckthorn Family
Red Creeper belongs to the Rhamnaceae family.
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