• Family : STERCULIACEAE
  (STERCULIA OR COCOA FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Malvaceae
• Species : Sterculia villosa
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sterculia villosa Roxb.
• Common name : Elephant Rope Timber
• Vernacular name : Udhal (Hin.); Bili dalay (Kan.); Kummari puliki (Tel.); Kodalo (Ori.)
• Habit : Tree
• Flower, Fruit : January-June
• Native : Indian sub-continent
• Comments : Occasional in deciduous forests and mixed forests in valleys. The gum is used as a substitute to 'Gum Karaya'. The bark fibre is coarse, but strong, made into ropes and breast bands for Elephants to drag timber. (Neginhal, 2011)
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : B.R.Hills (Chamarajnagar district) (Karnataka State); Visakhapatnam district, Rollapenta RF (Kurnool district), Nellore district, Srikakulam district (Andhra Pradesh State); Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district) (Odisha State)
• World Distribution : India, Andaman Islands (India), Tropical Himalaya, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1 ; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipal, Orissa; Neginhal, S.G., Forest Trees of the Western Ghats includes Eastern Ghats and Deccan Plateau. 2011.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Sterculia villosa. Downloaded on 4 July 2024.

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