• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Synonym(s) : Dalbergia tamarindifolia var. acaciifolia (Dalzell) Baker; Dalbergia tamarindifolia Roxb.; Dalbergia pinnata var. acaciifolia (Dalzell) Thoth.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dalbergia pinnata var. acaciifolia (Dalzell)Thoth.
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Deciduous forests near streams
• Comments / notes : Occasional in Western Ghats.
• Key identification features : Woody Climbing shrub in dry forests
• Flower, Fruit : March-May
• Collection Nos : HFP 1471, HFP 2868
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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=Dalbergia acaciifolia. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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