• Family : COMBRETACEAE
  (Combretum Or Indian Almond Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARJUN FAMILY (अर्जुन फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMBRETACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Terminalia chebula Retz.
• Common name : Chebulic Myrobalan, Gallnut, Black myrobalan, Chebulic myrobalan
• Vernacular name : Hara, Harara, Harad (Hindi); Anile kaayi mara, Alale (Kannada); Kadukkai (Tamil); Karakkaya chettu, Nalla karaka (Telugu); Harida (Oria); Haritakkee (Sanskrit); Kadukka, Pulicakku, Putanam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Dry and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills of deciduous forests to 1400m, also in farmlands and in plantations. Fruits are used for tannins and dyes. Plant is medicinal, fruits are used in preparation of 'Triphala Churna' (native preparation along with Embilica officinalis Gaert. & Terminalia bellirica (Gaert.) Roxb. for respiratory disorders).
• Flower, Fruit : February-October
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy, Navendu Page & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 23/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0601
• Collection Locality : Karadyur, Yercaud Hills, Salem district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bellary district, Kolar district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : Indian subcontinent
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; 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.
• 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=Terminalia chebula. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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