Vincetoxicum indicum(Burm.f.) Mabb.

antamul

WFO wfo-0001424572 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Vincetoxicum indicum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-02-26 / obs. 62410689
Vincetoxicum indicum, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. b Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48437089
Vincetoxicum indicum, photographed by S.MORE
fig. c S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 67873694
Vincetoxicum indicum, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 151963371
Vincetoxicum indicum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50365372
Vincetoxicum indicum, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. f Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48437088
Vincetoxicum indicum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 41023831
Vincetoxicum indicum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50365383

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Vincetoxicum indicum is native: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Laccadive Is., Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam AssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaIndiaLaosMalayaMyanmarSri LankaSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Laccadive Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Vincetoxicum indicum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Laccadive Is. LDV
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nicobar Is. NCB
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 32 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Asclepias asthmatica L.f.
  • Asclepias prolifera Rottler ex Ainslie
  • Asclepias tunicata Hook.f.
  • Asclepias vomitoria J.Koenig ex Hook.f.
  • Cynanchum flavum Thunb. ex Hook.f.
  • Cynanchum indicum Burm.f.
  • Cynanchum ipecacuanha Willd.
  • Cynanchum mucronatum Andrews
  • Cynanchum tomentosum Lam.
  • Cynanchum undatum Andrews
  • Cynanchum viridiflorum Sims
  • Cynanchum vomitorium Lam.
  • Diplolepis vomitoria Lindl.
  • Gonolobus mucronatus Sweet
  • Hoya planiflora Wall. ex Hook.f.
  • Marsdenia vomitoria Moon
  • Sonninia vomitoria (Lindl.) Kostel.
  • Tylophora asthmatica (L.f.) Wight & Arn.
  • Tylophora asthmatica var. glabra Decne.
  • Tylophora coilolepis Schltr.
  • Tylophora flava Trimen
  • Tylophora flavescens Ridl.
  • Tylophora indica (Burm.f.) Merr.
  • Tylophora indica var. glabra (Decne.) H.Huber

and 8 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.