• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Synonym(s) : Dalbergia frondosa DC.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Dalbergia lanceolaria L.f.
• Common name : Basterd Rosewood, Bombay Blackwood, Indonesian Rosewood, Malabar Rosewood
• Vernacular name :
  • Takoli, Bithua (Hindi)
  • Bili beete (Kannada)
  • Velangu, Erigai, Nalvellangu (Tamil)
  • Patshari, Sagobothu, Errapaccari, Pedda sapara, Yerrapatsaru (Telugu)
  • Sujanipati, Puradobi, Chakundia (Oria)
  • Goraksha (Sanskrit)
  • Harri (Marathi)
  • Kannanvaka, Kurutupanchandam, Ottutholi, Pachariai, Panchindam, Velleeti, Takoli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Mixed deciduous forests and hill slopes
• Comments / notes : Occasional in deciduous forests on hills and hill slopes up to 1400m.
• Key identification features : Pods glabrous, bright brown, flexible.
• Flower, Fruit : March-December
• Collector(s) Name : Navendu Page, Arun Singh, K. Sankara Rao, Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 23/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0603
• Collection Locality : Karadyur, Yercaud, Salem district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Anantapur district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Kadapa district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Telangana : Khammam district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Keonjhar district, Kalhandi district, Bolangir district
  • Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Tiruchirapalli district, Salem district, Dharmapuri district, Namakkal district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
  • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
  • West Bengal : Bankura, Burdwan, Howrah, Midnapur, Purulia
  • Himachal Pradesh : Chamba district, Shimla district
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
  • Assam : Assam
  • Nagaland : Nagaland
  • Delhi : Delhi
  • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
  • Mizoram : Mizoram
  • Manipur : Manipur
  • Tripura : Tripura
• Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature :
  • Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
  • J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1
  • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
  • R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
  • R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
  • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
  • N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
  • Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
  • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
  • Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
  • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 198
• Read more :
  • Plants of the World Online
  • World Flora Online
  • Global Plants on JSTOR
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Dalbergia lanceolaria. Downloaded on 1 April 2025.

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