• Family : STERCULIACEAE
  (Sterculia Or Cocoa Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COCOA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
• Basionym : Sterculia populifolia (DC.) Schott & Endl.
• Synonym(s) : Sterculia populnifolia Roxb. (S. populifolia spl. var.)
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Galibuda, Delibuda (Telugu)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Rocky terrains in deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Rare tree in deciduous forests of the ghats, usually among rocks. Bark of the plant is used for rope making.
• Key identification features : Leaf palmately 5-ribbed. Follicles papery, inflated with a membranous wing.
• Flower, Fruit : April-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 19/01/2011
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-309
• Collection Locality : Chinnapalle, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district (Kadapa district), Chandrayani kona, Ananthapur district (Anantapur district), Chittoor district (Chittoor district)
  • Maharashtra : Cultivated in Pune
  • Tamil Nadu : Kalrayan Hills (Salem district), Dharmapuri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Krishnagiri district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Critically Endangered (CR)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; M.R. Almeida (1996). Flora of Maharashtra 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=Hildegardia populifolia. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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