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Hill Tamarind

Dialium travancoricum

Hill Tamarind
Photo: Pranav Chandra Bose, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
India (Kerala)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dialium travancoricum is a critically endangered species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in the Western Ghats of Kerala in southwestern India, specifically around the Travancore range near Ponmudi and Ariankavu. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Other Dialium plants

Dialium bipindense · Velvet Tamarind · Dialium excelsum · Ironwood · Velvet tamarind · Dialium holtzii · Tamarind Plum · Dialium lopense · Dialium orientale · Dialium ovoideum · Dialium polyanthum · Dialiums

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dialium travancoricum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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