Stephanotis volubilis, synonyms including Dregea volubilis, is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae that is native from north-east Pakistan eastwards to south China and southwards to Java.
"Doodipaala" in Telugu, "Kodippaalai" in Tamil, "wattakakka" in Malayalam, "gwedauk" in Myanmar (Burmese).
A stout tall climber, branches often pustular, with:
Stephanotis volubilis has a very wide distribution in south China and tropical Asia. It is found throughout the Indian subcontinent (the Assam region, Bangladesh, the east and west Himalayas, the rest of India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka); in southeast and south-central China and Taiwan; throughout Indochina (the Andaman Islands, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, the Nicobar Islands, Thailand and Vietnam); and in parts of Malesia (Java, Malaya and the Philippines). In India, the plant is distributed from Northwest India to Bengal, Assam and the Deccan Peninsula, and southwards from the Konkan. In Sri Lanka, it occurs in the hotter parts of the island.