- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Butea parviflora Roxb.
- Synonym(s) : Butea parviflora DC.; Spatholobus roxburghii Benth
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Spatholobus parviflorus (Roxb. ex G.Don) Kuntze
- Common name : Flame of the forest
- Vernacular name :
- Mukkate balli (Kannada)
- Pilacchivalli (Tamil)
- Athambu, Modugu, Maduga (Telugu)
- Poresu, Palasha, Polosha, Gachpalosh (Oria)
- Dhal, (Hindi)
- Adambuvalli, Athambuvalli, Chamatha, Valliplash (Malayalam)
- Habit : Liana
- Habitat : Tropical semi-evergreen forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests, also in sacred groves
- Comments / notes : Occasional along hills up to 1400m.
- Key identification features : Large Climbing shrub
- Flower, Fruit : August-April
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Thane district, Raigad district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Kandhamal district, Kandhamal district, Bolangir district, Bargarh district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Darjeeling district, Bankura, Burdwan, Jailpaiguri, Midnapur, Purulia
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- 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.
- 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.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Spatholobus parviflorus. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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