• Family : MUSACEAE
  (Banana Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KELA FAMILY (केला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MUSACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ensete superbum (Roxb.) Cheesman
• Vernacular name : Chowani, Kawder, Rankel (Marathi); Kalluvazha, Malavazha (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Frequent on steep rocky slopes
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Thane district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Literature : B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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=Ensete superbum. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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