Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Ranunculales > Menispermaceae > Tiliacora > T. acuminata

Description: Climbing shrubs; stems striate, sparsely puberulous or glabrous. Leaves alternate, ovate or lanceolate, truncate, cordate, rarely acute at base, acuminate at apex, 8-14 x 3.5- 8 cm, chartaceous, glabrous, 3-5 nerved at base; petioles 1.5-3 cm long, sulcate, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary, panicled, 3.5-10 cm long, pubescent. Male flowers 2-7 at apex of inflorescence, yellow; sepals 6 in 2 rows; inner ones broadly elliptic, glabrous; petals 6, obovate, glabrous; stamens 6, cylindric. Female flower solitary; sepals and petals as in male ones; carpels 8-12, glabrous, on stalked puberulous gynophore. Drupes on branched carpophores, oblong to obovoid, 10-15 x 6-7 mm, glabrous, red when ripe; endocarp reticulate.

Flowering and Fruiting : April-December

Uses : Medicinal

Cultivation: Wild, Cultivated

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org