• 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) : Humboldtia vahliana Wight
• Vernacular name : Aattuvanchi, Karappongu, Korathi, Kurappunna (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Along river banks in semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : In low elevation riverine forests from 100-700 m.
• Flower, Fruit : February-April
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : 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=Humboldtia vahliana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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