• Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
• Basionym : Reichardia hexapetala Roth
• Synonym(s) : Pterolobium indicum A.Rich.; Pterolobium lacerans Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth) Santapau & Wagh
• Common name : White brasiletto climber, Camp Siege
• Vernacular name : Bada bakka (Kannada); Karindu, Pulindu (Tamil); Korintha, Pariki (Telugu); Endam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : In foothills of scrub jungles and deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Up to 1200m. Colonizer in cleared land.
• Key identification features : Strong prickly or curved spines with reddished wing pods. Extensive straggler with long arching branches.
• Flower, Fruit : March-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Krishna district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : India, Bhutan, Bangladesh
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais 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; N.P.Singh, 1988 Flora of Eastern Karnataka Vol. 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.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pterolobium hexapetalum. Downloaded on 6 May 2024.

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