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Running Straggler

Celastraceae (staff vine or bittersweet family) » Arnicratea grahamii

 

arn-ee-KRAH-tee-uh -- ¿ no information ?

hip-oh-KRAH-tee-uh -- named for Hippocrates, a Greek physician (460-370 BC)

GRAM-ee-eye -- named for John Graham, author of Catalogue of Plants (Bombay)

 

commonly known as: running straggler • Marathi: डवशीर daushir, धावशी dhavashi

 

Native to: Western Ghats (India), north-east India, Malesia

 

 

References: Flowers of IndiaGazetteers of the Bombay PresidencySahyadri DatabaseENVIS - FRLHT

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Uploaded on March 23, 2013
Taken on March 16, 2013