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Family: Apocynaceae	Genus: Ichnocarpus	Species: Ichnocarpus frutescens (Linn.) W.T. Alton

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Ichnocarpus frutescens var. frutescens, , Ichnocarpus frutescens var. leptodictyus (F. Muell) Domin, Ichnocarpus frutescens var. ovalifolius(A.DC.) Deb, Ichnocarpus frutescens var.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Black Creeper	Flower Type	Cyme
English / Trade Name	Black Creeper	Flowering Period	Jan-Dec
Vernacular /Local Name	Kalidudhi, Shyamalata	Fruiting Period	Jan-Dec
Altitude		Fruit Type	Follicle
Habit	Climber	Fruit Details	A paired, cylindric follicular mericarp; seeds many, basally furrowed, apex covered by silky coma.
Habitat	Moist and dry deciduous forests, also in the plains	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Moist and dry deciduous forests, also in the plains	Bark Details
Distribution in chandigarh	Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Oblong
Description of Species	Climbers, branchlets brown-tomentose. Leaves ovate, apex obtusely acute, base rounded, nerves 5 pairs, brown-pubescent below; petiole to 5 mm long. Flowers in terminal or axillary panicled cymes; calyx long, lobes ovate, acute, pubescent; corolla white, salver shaped, contracted at mouth, tube 2 mm long, hairy inside, throat densely white-villous, lobes twisted, oblong, acuminate; stamens included, anthers deeply sagitate at base, apiculate at apex; carpels free, stigma columnar. fruit rusty puberulus; seeds many, compressed, crowned with long silky coma.	Leaf Details	Leaves ovate, apex obtusely acute, base rounded, nerves 5 pairs, brown-pubescent below; petiole to 5 mm long.

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