• Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
• Synonym(s) : Caesalpinia spicata Dalzell; Wagatea spicata (Dalzell) Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Moullava spicata (Dalzell) Nicolson
• Common name : Orange brasiletto climber, Candy Corn Plant
• Vernacular name : Wagathi, Gajjiga balli (Kannada); Poomullu valli, Kakka-kalingavalli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests, in open areas
• Comments / notes : Common
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Collection Nos : KFP 10645, KFP 10926
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Kollam district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Moullava spicata. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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