• 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) : Cynometra beddomei Prain
• Vernacular name : Cherukoori (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : February-August
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Possibly Extinct
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; 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=Cynometra beddomei. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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