Bauhinia phoenicea B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn.

baw-HIN-ee-uh -- named for Gaspard and Jean Bauhin, physicians and botanists ... Dave's Botanary
feen-ih-KEE-uh -- referring to the genus Phoenix, or the color purple ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: crimson mountain ebony, scarlet bauhinia • Kannada: ಬಳ್ಳಿ ಮಂದಾರ balli mandara, ಕೆಂಪು ಯಾತ ಬಳ್ಳಿ kempu yatha balli • Malayalam: തുക്കരകല്ലി thukarakalli, വള്ളിമന്ദാരം vallimandaram • Tamil: தூக்கரக்களி thukarakkali • Tulu: ಬಳ್ಳು ಮಂದಾರೊ ballu mandaro


botanical names: Bauhinia phoenicea B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. ... synonyms: Bauhinia benthamii Bedd. • Bauhinia ruficarpa Desv. • Perlebia phoenicea (B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn.) A.Schmitz • Phanera phoenicea (B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn.) Benth. ... POWO

Bibliography / etymology

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crimson mountain ebony

• Singh, R.K., P.G. Diwakar & J.V. Sudhakar (2015). Bauhinia phoenicea B. Heyne ex Wight & Arn., the less known endemic and threatened liana of the southern Western Ghats, requires immediate conservation. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(10): 7676–7682
• Herbarium JCB

scarlet bauhinia

• Flowers of India

~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~

ಬಳ್ಳಿ ಮಂದಾರ balli mandara

• Shodhganga - Medicinal plants of Tulunadu

ಕೆಂಪು ಯಾತ ಬಳ್ಳಿ kempu yatha balli

• Latin and Kannada names of indigenous and medicinal plants of Mysore by S G Narsimhachar

~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~

തുക്കരകല്ലി thukarakalli

• Shodhganga - Medicinal plants of Tulunadu
• Many thanks to Ajayan Sadanandan for help with this name ... facebook

വള്ളിമന്ദാരം vallimandaram

• Wikipedia
• Shodhganga - Medicinal plants of Tulunadu

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தூக்கரக்களி thukarakkali

• Singh, R.K., P.G. Diwakar & J.V. Sudhakar (2015). Bauhinia phoenicea B. Heyne ex Wight & Arn., the less known endemic and threatened liana of the southern Western Ghats, requires immediate conservation. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(10): 7676–7682
• Many thanks to Dr Vijayasankar Raman for help with the possible spelling of not-so-known name in native script ... efloraofindia ... perhaps this name is of Malayalam origin, prevalent in border region of Tamil Nadu and Kerala

~~~~~ TULU ~~~~~

ಬಳ್ಳು ಮಂದಾರೊ ballu mandaro

• Shodhganga - Medicinal plants of Tulunadu

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