- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Cytisus pinnatus L.
- Synonym(s) : Cajum pinnatum (L.) Kuntze; Galedupa pinnata (L.) Taub.; Millettia pinnata (L.) Panigrahi; Pongamia glabra Vent.; Pongamia pinnata var. typica Domin
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre
- Common name : Indian Elm, Pongam oil tree, Indian beech wood tree
- Vernacular name :
- Karanj (Hindi)
- Hongemara (Kannada)
- Pungam, Ponga (Tamil)
- Gaanuga, Kanuga, Pungu (Telugu)
- Karanjo (Oria)
- Karanja (Sanskrit)
- Minnari, Ungu, Ponnam, Pungu, Punnu, Pongam (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Deciduous forests, also planted as avenue tree
- Comments / notes : A sacred tree; gaining popularity as a source of biofuel from the seed kernel; common along water courses to 1000m.
- Key identification features : A medium-sized decidious tree. Leaves are imparipinnate with 2-3 pairs of broad leaflets, often seen with Galls. Flowers are in short clusters, pea-like and whitish-pink. Fruit is a flattened, oval, woody pod that dehisces at both ends. Bark smoke-grey and smooth.
- Flower, Fruit : April-December
- Collector(s) Name : S.R.Ramesh
- Collection Date : 26/06/1980
- Collection Nos : KFP 11618
- Collection Locality : Huliurdurga, Tumkuru district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Andhra Pradesh
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Bengaluru district, Mysuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district, Davanagare district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kerala
- Odisha : Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Jharkhand :
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : West Bengal
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Delhi : Delhi
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Caroline Islands, China, Christmas Island, Fiji, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Caroline Islands, China, Christmas Island, Fiji, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Islands
- 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 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
- Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
- 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.
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 152
- 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=Pongamia pinnata. Downloaded on 27 July 2024.
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