• Family : BOMBACACEAE
  (Bombax Or Kapok Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SEMAL FAMILY (लटकन फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Durio exarillatus (Robyns) ined.
• Vernacular name : Alanki, Karayni, Kurunguplavu, Mullenchankka, Mullenpali, Vediplavu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Frequent in mid to high elevation evergreen forests from Kodagu to Kanyakumari; elevation 500-1400 m.
• Key identification features : Tree with buttressed trunk.
• Flower, Fruit : January-November
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
• 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=Cullenia exarillata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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