• Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Bauhinia acuminata L.
• Common name : White 'Orchid' Tree, Dwarf White Bauhinia, Butterfly-tree, Hawaiian Orchid Tree, Hong Kong Orchid Tree, Purple Camel's Foot, White Bauhinia, Kaa-long, Snowy Orchid
• Vernacular name : Halad (Sanskrit); Kanchnar (Hindi); Bili mandara, Kanchan (Kannada); Veluthamandaram, Mantharam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Planted
• Comments / notes : Ornamental
• Key identification features : Large shrub; flowers white
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Puri district, Khurda district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district
• Native : Tropical southeast Asia.
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, China, Brunei, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Thailand
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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=Bauhinia acuminata. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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