• 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 frondosa DC.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dalbergia lanceolaria L.f.
• Common name : Basterd Rosewood, Bombay Blackwood, Indonesian Rosewood, Malabar Rosewood
• Vernacular name : Takoli, Bithua (Hindi); Bili beete (Kannada); Velangu, Erigai, Nalvellangu (Tamil); Patshari, Sagobothu, Errapaccari, Pedda sapara, Yerrapatsaru (Telugu); Sujanipati, Puradobi, Chakundia (Oria); Goraksha (Sanskrit); Harri (Marathi); Kannanvaka, Kurutupanchandam, Ottutholi, Pachariai, Panchindam, Velleeti, Takoli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Mixed deciduous forests and hill slopes
• Comments / notes : Occasional in deciduous forests on hills and hill slopes up to 1400m.
• Flower, Fruit : March-December
• Collector(s) Name : Navendu Page, Arun Singh, K. Sankara Rao & Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 23/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0603
• Collection Locality : Karadyur, Yercaud, Salem district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Anantapur district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Kadapa district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Telangana : Khammam district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Keonjhar district, Kalhandi district, Bolangir district
  • Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Tiruchirapalli district, Salem district, Dharmapuri district, Namakkal district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; 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; 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=Dalbergia lanceolaria. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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