Boucerosia umbellata – Umbelled Caralluma

Other notes

Other Name Combinations: Caralluma umbellata (WFO, 2022).

 

Notes: This plant has been recorded as a new larval host for Danaus chrysippus – Plain Tiger by Medha Rao from Bengaluru, Karnataka in 2015.

 

References:

WFO (2022): World Flora Online. Accessed on 23 Dec 2022. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000569857.

Flowers of India (2022). Accessed on 23 Dec 2022. URL: https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Umbelled%20Caralluma.html.

Page citation

Rao, M. and N. Kawthankar. 2024. Boucerosia umbellata (Haw.) Wight & Arn. – Umbelled Caralluma. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/boucerosia-umbellata, accessed 2024/12/10.