Pergularia

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.

• # Pergularia adenophylla Schltr. & K. Schum. - Cameroon
 * Species

• # 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

Moved to other genera – Cionura, Marsdenia, Strophanthus, Telosma, Vincetoxicum (syn. Tylophora), Vallaris • # P. accedens, syn of Telosma accedens
 * formerly included

• # 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. 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