• Family : BIGNONIACEAE
  (Bignonia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NEELI GULMOHUR FAMILY (नीली गुलमोहर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BIGNONIACEAE
• Basionym : Bignonia quadriloculare Roxb.
• Synonym(s) : Heterophragma roxburghii DC.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Heterophragma quadriloculare (Roxb.) K.Schum.
• Common name : Waras
• Vernacular name : Warras, Pullung (Hindi); Kapu-gargu, Kala-goru, Baray-kalikod, Bondugu, Koligottu, Barukoli-gottu (Telugu)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Dry Deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Flower, Fruit : December-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district, West Godavari district
  • Telangana : Khammam district
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district
  • Odisha : Koraput district, Malkangiri district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Harish Bhat et.al, 2013- Netrani Island Report; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Heterophragma quadriloculare. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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