• 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) : Unresolved name
• Common name : Flowering Murdah, Flowering Murdels
• Vernacular name : Muruva, Mathi, Hanalu mara (Kannada); Talikadukkay, Puluvai (Tamil); Neemari, Nerali, Chirumanu (Telugu); Aswakarnaha (Sanskrit); Maruthu, Manjamaruthu, Peimaruthu, Pillamaruthu, Pullamaruthu, Venmaruthu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Moist and dry deciduous fotests, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : On hills above 800m.
• Flower, Fruit : August-January
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy, Arun Singh R; K. Sankara Rao, Raja K. Swamy & Arun Singh
• Collection Date : 12-09-2014; 19-11-2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0011; HJCB-E-82
• Collection Locality : Amirthi RF, Vellore district (TN); Palamner forest range, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kadapa district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; 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 paniculata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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