Cardiospermum halicacabum microcarpum (Kunth) Bl.

Synonym: Cardiospermum microcarpum Kunth

Cardiospermum halicacabum microcarpum (Kunth) Bl.

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🗒 Synonyms

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🗒 Common Names

English	Ballon Vine Balloon Vine
Irula	Sipotalie Sitpotarai
Other	Sipotalie
Tamil	Modakanthan Keerai

📚 Overview

Habit: A herbaceous climber, to 3m.

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SubSpecies Varieties Races

Diagnostic Keys

Description

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📚 Nomenclature and Classification

Nomenclature and Classification

Taxon Record Name

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Type Information

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📚 Natural History

Growth Form

Climber

Flower

In axillary corymbose racemes, small; white. Flowering from July-February.

Fruit

A sharply 3-lobed capsule, winged at angles, tomentose; seeds 3, globose. Fruiting from August-March.

Field tips

The lowest pair of pedicels transformed into spiral tendrils.

Leaf Arrangement

Alternate-spiral

Leaf Type

2-ternate

Leaf Shape

Ovate-lanceolate

Leaf Apex

Obtuse-mucronate

Leaf Base

Obtuse-truncate

Leaf Margin

Irregularly deeply incised

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Pollinators

Bees

Miscellaneous Details

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📚 Habitat and Distribution

Habitat and Distribution

General Habitat

Locally abundant in wasteland and disturbed ground, ready colonizer. Plains upto 900m.

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Distribution

Description

Very common along the roadsides and open grounds in deciduous forests from plains to 400m. Tropical and subtropical Africa, America, India, Sri Lanka and Malesia.

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Endemic Distribution

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📚 Occurrence

Occurrence

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📚 Demography and Conservation

Demography and Conservation

Protection Legal Status

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📚 Uses and Management

Uses and Management

Uses

Cattle fodder. Shoots are roasted to cure cold and pain in the knee joints. The leaves are cooked as vegetables. The leaf and root are used to cure digestive problems.The leaf cooked with small onion and castor oil is used to cure vomiting.

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