• Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
• Basionym : Reichardia decapetala Roth
• Synonym(s) : Caesalpinia sepiaria Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Caesalpinia decapetala (Roth) Alston
• Common name : Mysore thorn, Black bonduc, Shoofly
• Vernacular name : Aila, Uri, Relu, Kando (Hindi); Kurudu gejjuga (Kannada); Sirukalacchi, Purrhadukki (Tamil); Gadda Korinda, Korinda (Telugu); Gilo (Oria); Inna (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Degraded forests
• Comments / notes : On hills up to 1400m
• Key identification features : Prickly straggler
• Flower, Fruit : October-May
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Keonjhar district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Salem district, Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruchirapalli district
• Native : Tropical & sub-Tropical Asia
• World Distribution : Naturalized in tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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 decapetala. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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