- Family : STERCULIACEAE
(Sterculia Or Cocoa Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : COCOA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Malvaceae
- Basionym : Theobroma augustum L.
- Synonym(s) : Abroma alatum Blanco; Abroma angulatum Lam.; Abroma angulosum Poir.; Abroma commune Blanco; Abroma denticulatum Miq.; Abroma elongatum Lam.; Abroma fastuosum Jacq.; Abroma javanicum Miq.; Abroma molle DC.; Abroma obliquum C.Presl; Abroma sinuosum G.Nicholson; Abroma wheleri Retz.; Theobroma augustum L.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Abroma augustum (L.) L.f.
- Common name : Devil's cotton
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Grown as garden plant
- Comments / notes : Bark yields fibre
- Flower, Fruit : December-August
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Maharashtra
- Assam : Assam
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Nicobar Islands
- Lakshadweep : AgattiIs Islands, Kavaratti Islands
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam
- Literature :
- N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- C., Sudhakar Reddy & Roy, Parth. (2011). Plant Diversity of Lakshadweep Islands.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Abroma augusta. Downloaded on 2 July 2024.
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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