• Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Caesalpinia mimosoides Lam.
• Vernacular name : Pulinakagonrai, Pananjimullu (Tamil); Chingmullu, Drathubanam, Kalthottavadi, Komullu, Puliyindam, Swethamoolam, Theemullu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Secondary forests and farmlands
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills up to 1400m
• Key identification features : Branchlets dark purple, emitting a characteristic acid odour when broken
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Vellore district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; 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.
• 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 mimosoides. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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