Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

 An introduced liana native to Southern China, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, Pakistan and Myanmar .  Cultivated in home gardens. 

An introduced herb or small shrub native to the South and tropical Africa . Cultivated, escaped and naturalized mainly in the hill countr...

Common native shrub or twiner grows in deciduous scrub and forest edges of the dry zone.  Flowering from July to October. 

An introduced herb native to West Indies .  Commonly cultivated as an ornamental plant and occasionally found as an escape.

An indigenous twining and struggling woody plant occurs in the drier parts of the island in deciduous secondary shrub.

Rather uncommon indigenous herb twining in hedges and fences of the dry zone. Flowering from November to March.

A rare perennial herb growing on rocky outcrops of dry and intermediate zones of the island. Flowering in January or August to September. T...

A twining indigenous herb common in dry and arid zones of sri lanka , often in disturbed vegetations.  It has greenish white flower wi...

Wara is a common tree/shrub of disturbed vegetations (Common around paddy fields and tanks) in dry and arid zones of low country.  Flowe...