Herbarium JCB

Oroxylum indicum L.

Family : BIGNONIACEAE
(Bignonia Family)
Family (Hindi name) : NEELI GULMOHUR FAMILY (नीली गुलमोहर फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : BIGNONIACEAE
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Oroxylum indicum (L.) Kurz
Common name : Broken bones Tree, Indian Calosanthes, Midnight Horror, Indian trumpet flowet, Tree of Damocles
Vernacular name : Sonapatha, Sagru, Sauna, Sona, Karkath (Hindi); Thigade mara (Kannada); Godugu Chettu, Akumanu, Nemali Chettu, Pampini, Peddakatti, Sakana-nasamu, Pampini Chettu, Konda pampina chettu (Telugu); Pependi, Bhalu-sakti, Phemphana, Phampan (Oria); Syonaka (Sanskrit); Aralu, Palakapayyani, Payyazhantha, Valpathiri, Veluthapathiri (Malayalam)
Habit : Tree
Habitat : Occasional in mixed deciduous forests, along streams, rivers and cool sides of the hills in the forests
Comments / notes : Sometimes planted in avenues and gardens
Flower, Fruit : July-March
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, West Godavari district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Koraput district, Dhenkanal district, Mayurbhanj district
World Distribution : India, Tropical Himalayas, Indo-China, Malaysia, Western & South China, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Indonesia
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; 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=Oroxylum indicum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.