• 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 travancorica Bedd.
• Vernacular name : Koori (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in low elevation evergreen forest from Hassan to Trivandrum; elevation 200-700 m.
• Key identification features : Tree with buttressed trunk; bark lenticellate
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats
• 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 travancorica. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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