Herbarium JCB

Dalbergia horrida (Dennst.) Mabb.

Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
Subfamily : Faboideae
Basionym : Amerimnon horridum Dennst.
Synonym(s) : Dalbergia sympathetica Nimmo; Dalbergia multiflora Prain
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dalbergia horrida (Dennst.) Mabb.
Vernacular name : Aanamullu, Jadavalli (Malayalam)
Habit : Liana
Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also sacred groves and plains
Comments / notes : Frequent in semi-evergreen forests.
Key identification features : A large prickly Climbing shrub. Stems are armed with strong, blunt and curved thorns. Leaves are unipinnate, leaflets often beset with galls, obovate-oblong and notched at the tip. Flowers are axillary and borne in dense cymes. Fruit is a 1-2-seeded flat pod.
Flower, Fruit : September-February
Collection Nos : KFP 4927, KFP 10952
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district
Native : India
Endemism : Southwest India
World Distribution : India
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.; Arora et al., 1981 - South Kanara; 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=Dalbergia horrida. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.