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

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Ichnocarpus frutescensvar. frutescens, , Ichnocarpus frutescensvar. leptodictyus (F. Muell) Domin, Ichnocarpus frutescens var.ovalifolius(A.DC.) Deb, Ichno	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Kalidudhi, Shyamalata	Flower Type	Cyme
English / Trade Name	Black Creeper	Flowering Period	Jan-Dec
Vernacular /Local Name	Kalidudhi	Fruiting Period	Jan-Dec
Altitude	Upto 1600m	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	Indo-Malesia and Australia	Bark Details
Distribution in Haryana	Karnal, Kurukshetra, Morni-Pinjore, Panipat	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
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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