Pergularia

Twining herbs (in ours) or twining shrubs. White latex present. Leaves opposite, ovate to almost round, distinctly cordate. Inflorescences extra-axillary, initially umbelliform but lengthening into a raceme. Corolla with a tube and spreading lobes, bearded along the margin. Corona with lobes erect, arching over the column at the apex. Follicles usually paired, reflexed on the pedicel or rarely spreading, fusiform to narrowly ovoid, curved at the apex into a beak, smooth to strongly echinate, hairless or pubescent.

Pergularia is a genus of the botanical family Apocynaceae. Pergularia daemia is a perennial twinning herb that grows along the roadsides of India and tropical and subtropical regions in South Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Pharmacological activities include antiinflammatory, hepatoprotective, anticancer, antidiabetic, antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal, analgesic, anti-infertility and central nervous system depressant activity.

Species Pergularia adenophylla Schltr. & K. Schum. - Cameroon Pergularia brunoniana (Wight & Arn.) D.Dietr. - India Pergularia calesiana (Wight) Buch.-Ham. ex Hook.f. - Himalayas Pergularia clausa (R.Br.) Spreng. - Jamaica Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov. - Africa, S Asia Pergularia exilis (Colebr.) Spreng. - Bangladesh Pergularia flavescens (A.Cunn.) Hook.f. ex D.Dietr. Pergularia hamiltonii (Wight) D.Dietr. - Uttar Pradesh Pergularia rostrata (R.Br.) Spreng. - Queensland Pergularia roylei (Wight) D.Dietr. - Himachal Pradesh Pergularia suaveolens (R.Br.) Spreng. - Australia Pergularia tinctoria (R.Br.) Spreng. - Sumatra Pergularia tomentosa L. - Middle East from Egypt to Pakistan Pergularia viridiflora (R.Br.) Spreng. - Australia formerly included

Moved to other genera – Cionura, Marsdenia, Metaplexis, Strophanthus, Telosma, Vincetoxicum (syn. Tylophora), Vallaris

P. accedens, syn of Telosma accedens P. africana, syn of Telosma africana P. angustiloba, syn of Telosma angustiloba P. celebica, syn of Telosma celebica P. divaricata, syn of Strophanthus divaricatus P. erecta, syn of Cionura erecta P. filipes, syn of Telosma procumbens P. glabra, syn of Vallaris glabra P. japonica, syn of Metaplexis japonica P. minor, syn of Telosma cordata P. pallida, syn of Telosma pallida P. parviflora, syn of Marsdenia parviflora P. procumbens, syn of Telosma procumbens P. puberula, syn of Telosma puberula P. sanguinolenta, syn of Cryptolepis sanguinolenta P. sinensis, syn of Cryptolepis sinensis P. tenacissima, syn of Marsdenia tenacissima P. velutina, syn of Tylophora velutina