- 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 21 November 2024.
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