• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Hypaphorus subumbrans Hassk.
• Synonym(s) : Erythrina lithosperma Blume ex Miq.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Erythrina subumbrans (Hassk.) Merr.
• Vernacular name : Kadu parivala (Kannada); Mullillamurikku, Venmurukku (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Open forests
• Comments / notes : Introduced tree
• Flower, Fruit : August-May
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
• Native : Malesia
• World Distribution : India, Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
• 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=Erythrina subumbrans. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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