• Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
• Basionym : Inga pterocarpa DC.
• Synonym(s) : Peltophorum ferrugineum (Decne.) Benth.; Peltophorum roxburghii (G.Don) Degener; Poinciana roxburghii G.Don
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Peltophorum pterocarpum (DC.) K.Heyne
• Common name : The Copper Pod, Copper pod tree, Golden Flamboyante, Rusty shield bearer, Rusty shield bearer, Yellow gold mohur, Yellow Flame Tree, Yellow Poinciana
• Vernacular name : Lyaluakai, Perunbonnai, Ivalvagai, Perungondrai (Tamil); Pacha sunkesula, Konda Chinta (Telugu); Charakonna (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Comments / notes : Planted along roads as avenue tree.
• Flower, Fruit : March-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : All districts of Karnataka
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines to N. Australia, Malay peninsula and Archipelago
• Literature : Pullaiah et Sri Ramamurthy, 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; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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=Peltophorum pterocarpum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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