• Family : STERCULIACEAE
  (Sterculia Or Cocoa Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COCOA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pentapetes phoenicea L.
• Common name : Noon plant
• Vernacular name : Ucchamalari (Malayalam); Makina chettu (Telugu); Dopahariya, Dotohariya (Hindi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Occasional in wet places, along rice fields and ponds
• Comments / notes : Also cultivated in gardens
• Flower, Fruit : August-January
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Alappuzha district
  • Maharashtra : Nagpur district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Pune district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Khurda district, Cuttack district, Ganjam district, Khurda district
  • Tamil Nadu : Cultivated in gardens
• Native : Tropical Asia
• World Distribution : Tropical Asia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; 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=Pentapetes phoenicea. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

Botanical Description

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