• 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 Plant List) : Ormosia travancorica Bedd.
• Common name : Bell Pea
• Vernacular name : Betta manjadi (Kannada); Malamanchadi (Malayalam); Malai Manchedi (Tamil)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in evergreen forests of Western Ghats.
• Key identification features : Lofty tree
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Collection Nos : HFP 1665, CJS 16248
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Idupulapaya (Kadapa district), Kambala Konda Ecopark (Vishakapatnam district)
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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.
• 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=Ormosia travancorica. Downloaded on 27 April 2024.

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