• 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) : Caesalpinia nuga (L.) Aiton; Guilandina nuga L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Caesalpinia crista L.
• Vernacular name : Sanna gejjuga (Kannada); Mullu-tiga (Telugu); Kalaichikai (Tamil); Sagargota (Marathi); Aattuparanda, Kakamullu, Manjapoovalli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Deciduous forests and mangrove forests
• Comments / notes : Tidal forests
• Key identification features : Prickly and scandent
• Flower, Fruit : February-June
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kozhikode district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Jagatsinghpur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Tiruchirapalli district
• World Distribution : India, Southeast Asia, Polynesia, Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 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=Caesalpinia crista. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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