• Family : BIGNONIACEAE
  (Bignonia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NEELI GULMOHUR FAMILY (नीली गुलमोहर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BIGNONIACEAE
• Basionym : Bignonia xylocarpa Roxb.
• Synonym(s) : Stereospermum xylocarpum (Roxb.) Benth.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Radermachera xylocarpa (Roxb.) Roxb. ex K.Schum.
• Common name : Padri Tree
• Vernacular name : Konana kombu (Kannada); Vedhamkurunai (Tamil); Naga-dudilam, Naguru, Pullakaya Chettu, Pundlakaya Chettu (Telugu); Mahagurud, Khonda-partoli (Oria); Shweta Patala (Sanskrit); Edankorna, Kattumuringa, Pannimuringa, Pambukaimaram, Vedivembu, Vedangkonnia, Vedinkorana (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in hill slopes of dry deciduous, moist deciduous forests up to 750m.
• Flower, Fruit : February-April; Fruits Aprilil onwards
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Vishakapatnam district, Chittoor district
  • Telangana : Khammam district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Bengaluru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Bargarh district, Bolangir district, Kalhandi district, Angul district, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Central and Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Matthew, K.M., The 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=Radermachera xylocarpa. Downloaded on 13 May 2024.

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