Argyreia lawii C.B.Clarke (1883:190)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ipomoea lawii (C.B.Clarke) J.R.I.Wood & Scotland in Nat. Plants 5(11): 1136-44 (Suppl.: 28) (2019)
Conservation Status
Last record: prior to 1883 [type collection] (Lawand et al., 2019)
Rediscovered on: 15 September 2017 (Lawand et al., 2019)
Distribution & Habitat
India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Clarke, C. B. (1883). Convolvulaceae. In: Hooker, J.D. (ed.)Flora of British India: Vol. 4. L. Reeve and Co., London. 190pp.
Other references:
Cooke, T. (1908). Flora of the Presidency of Bombay Vol. 2. Taylor and Francis, London. 257pp.
Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
Lawand, P. R., Gurav, R. V. and Shimpale, V. B. (2019). Rediscovery, after over a century, of the endemic climbing vine Argyreia lawii (Convolvulaceae) from the Western Ghats of India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(14): 14917-14920. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.4419.11.14.14917-14920
Lawand, P. R. and Shimpale, V. B. (2024). Revision of the genus Argyreia (Convolvulaceae) from India. Rheedea 34: 337-396.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 12 July 2025]
Rajeswari, A. R. and Nisha, M. K. (2023). Argyreia lawii C.B.Clarke (Convolvulaceae) – an extended distribution record in the Western Ghats of Kerala. Journal of Threatened Taxa 15(7): 23627-23630. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.8196.15.7.23627-23630
Sankara Rao, K., Sringeswara, A. N., Kumar, Deepak, Pulla, Sandeep and Sukumar, R. (2012). A digital herbarium for the flora of Karnataka. Current Science 102(9): 1268-1271.
Sharma, B. D., Singh, N. P., Raghavan, R. S. and Deshpande, U. R. (1984). Flora of Karnataka analysis. Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. 179pp.
Singh, N. P., Lakshminarsimhan, P., Karthikeyan, S. and Prasanna, P. V. (2001). Flora of Maharashtra State: Dicotyledons Vol. 2. Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. 445pp.
Talbot, W. A. (1902). The Trees, Shrubs and Climbers of the Bombay Presidency. The Government Central Press, Bombay. 249pp.
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