• Family : BIGNONIACEAE
  (Bignonia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NEELI GULMOHUR FAMILY (नीली गुलमोहर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BIGNONIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not found in The Plant List
• Vernacular name : Harwar (Hindi); Oodi mara, Arvi, Vaddi (Kannada); Chithaththi, Kaattunaarai, Oodaa (Tamil); Udda, Chitti-niruddi, Chinna oddi, Oddi, Chittodi (Telugu); Karal, Belsrung (Oria); Medshinghi (Marathi)
• Habit : Tree
• Comments / notes : Common in scrub and dry deciduous forests.
• Flower, Fruit : January-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Satara district, Pune district, Kolhapur district, Ahmednagar district, Nagpur district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Bolangir district, Kalhandi district, Sambalpur district, Angul district
• Native : India
• Endemism : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga district;Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
• 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=Dolichandrone falcata var. falcata. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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