- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.
- Common name : Indian Kino Tree, Malabara Kino Tree, Almug, Saunderswood, Bastard teak, East Indian Kino, Gammalu, Kino
- Vernacular name :
- Bija, Piasal, Bijsaal, Vijaysaar (Hindi)
- Raktha honne mara, Benga mara, Volle honne (Kannada)
- Vaengai (Tamil)
- Yegi, Peddagi, Yerra Yegisa, Yegisa, Yerra Chandanam (Telugu)
- Bija, Piasal (Oria)
- Asana, Bijaka, Murga (Sanskrit)
- Karavenga, Venna, Venga (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hill slopes of deciduous forests up to 1400m and even in dry to fully exposed habitats. Bark when cut open yeilds a red resinous exudate which dries in solid block
- Key identification features : Large deciduous tree
- Flower, Fruit : March-November
- Collector(s) Name : S.R.Ramesh, S.B.Manohar; M.Brahamam, S.Biswas, D.K.Sahu; S.Biswas, D.K.Sahu
- Collection Date : 16-05-1979, 24-11-2007, 15-01-2008
- Collection Nos : KFP 7674, RRL 10506, RRl 10683
- Collection Locality : B.R. hills, Mysuru district; Chalanguda, Odisha; Chitrakonda, Odisha
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, East Godavari district, Prakasam district, Chittoor district, Anantapur district, Kadapa district, Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Sambalpur district, Malkangiri district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
- Jharkhand :
- Madhya Pradesh : Madhya Pradesh
- West Bengal : Bankura, Birbhum, Burdwan, Midnapur, Purulia
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Native : Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1
- R.Seshagiri Rao et al- Flora of West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, 1986
- 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
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- 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.
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri
- Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg
- Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Indigenous Plants at Biodiversity Park, Ranchi - Ranchi Afforestation Division, Forest and Environmental Department, Jharkhand
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pterocarpus marsupium. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Line Drawings
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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