• 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 2 April 2025.

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