• 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) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Mulipolavu (Tamil); Malayuram, Malavuram, Malaviriam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare; at elevations 180-800 m.
• Flower, Fruit : December-May
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Coimbatore district, Tiruchirapalli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
• 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 reticulatum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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