• Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Acrocarpus fraxinifolius Wight & Arn.
• Common name : Indian Ash, Red or Pink Cedar, Single Tree
• Vernacular name : Madhani (Hindi); Hantige, Belangi (Kannada); Nelrai (Tamil); Kurangadi, Narivenga, Karangan (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Frequent along Western Ghats. Timber is useful for building and furniture.
• Key identification features : An unarmed lofty deciduous tree with buttressed trunk; leaves are bipinnate, pinnae 3-5 pairs, each with 5-6 pairs of large leaflets, which are bright red when young. Flowers are green with crimson stamens. Pod is flat with the upper suture winged.
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, Africa
• Conservation Status : Rare (R)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Acrocarpus fraxinifolius. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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