- Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
- Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
- Synonym(s) : Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.) Benth.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Bauhinia malabarica Roxb.
- Common name : Malabar Mountain Ebony, Malabar bauhinia, Mountain ebony
- Vernacular name : Ampti, Amlosa (Hindi); Basavanapada (Kannada); Vellatthi, Mantharairi (Tamil); Pulichinta, Pedda-ari (Telugu); Koteli, Gumbati (Oria); Kanchanara (Sanskrit); Arampuli, Vellamandara (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Valleys of forests, Deciduous forests
- Key identification features : Small bushy deciduous tree
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Collector(s) Name : K. Sankara Rao, Navendu Page, Raja K. Swamy & Arun Singh
- Collection Date : 24/02/2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-332
- Collection Locality : Chandaka WLS, Khurda district (OD)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Kurnool district,
- Karnataka : Bellary district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Bargarh district, Bolangir district, Angul district, Dhenkanal district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district
- World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Malay Islands, Java
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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 malabarica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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