• Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
• Basionym : Phanera phoenicea (Wight & Arn.) Benth.
• Synonym(s) : Bauhinia benthamii Bedd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Bauhinia phoenicea Wight & Arn.
• Common name : Crimson Mountain Ebony
• Vernacular name : Kempu Yatha balli (Kannada); Vallimandaram, Thukarakalli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Common in forests of Western Ghats.
• Key identification features : Large climber
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha, B.Gurudev Singh & B.Ajay Kumar
• Collection Nos : KFP 4668, KFP 12610
• Collection Locality : Shiradi Ghat (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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 phoenicea. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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