• Family : STERCULIACEAE
  (Sterculia Or Cocoa Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COCOA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Pterospermum glabrescens Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Muchukunda (Kannada); Pambaram (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-evergreen, also moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Infrequent
• Flower, Fruit : December-May
• Collection Nos : KFP 12726, HFP 1815, CJS 15597
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Pune district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Pterospermum diversifolium. Downloaded on 5 April 2025.

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