• Family : TILIACEAE
  (Linden Or Jute Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : FALSA FAMILY (फालसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Erinocarpus nimmonii J. Graham
• Vernacular name : Jangli-bhendi (Hindi); Kadve bendi, Shilla (Kannada); Chaora, Char, Chira, Moduvakh, Varing (Marathi)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in higher elevations up to 1000m., along streams
• Flower, Fruit : September-February
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Sogi R.F. (Ballari district), Belagavi district, Davanagare district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : N.P.Singh, 1998 Flora of Eastern Karnataka Vol. 1; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
• 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=Erinocarpus nimmonii. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.

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