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Family: Asclepiadaceae	Genus: Pergularia	Species: Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov. ( गडरिया की बेल )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Asclepias daemia Forssk., Asclepias muricata Schumach. & Thonn., Daemia bicolor Sweet	Flower Color	Greenish
Common Name	Pergularia , Utaran, Sagovani, Aakasan, Jutak	Flower Type	Cyme
English / Trade Name	Pergularia	Flowering Period	Oct-Dec
Vernacular /Local Name	Gadaria Ki bel	Fruiting Period	April-June
Altitude	Upto 1000 m	Fruit Type	Follicle
Habit	Climber	Fruit Details	Follicles, lanceolate, beaked, echinate, puberulous. Seeds ovate, tip truncate, velvety pubescent.
Habitat	Scrub jungles and dry deciduous forests, also in the plains	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	W. Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, Afghanistan through Arabia to South and Tropical Africa.	Bark Details	Greenish branches with spreading hairs.
Distribution in Haryana	Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Rohtak	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	Perennial twining herb, juice milky, branches with spreading hairs. Leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular, base cordate, tip acute to acuminate, glabrous or shortly pubescent above, usually velvety pubescent below. Flowers in lateral cymes. Bracts minute, lanceolate. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, generally hairy. Corolla greenish-yellow or dull white spreading, ovate-oblong, pubescent. Outer corona membranous, truncate, inner corona lobes, including the horns. Follicles lanceolate, beaked, echinate, puberulous. Seeds ovate, tip truncate, velvety pubescent.	Leaf Details	Leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular, base cordate, tip acute to acuminate, glabrous or shortly pubescent above, usually velvety pubescent below.

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