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                  Kunstleria keralensis C.N.Mohanan & N.C.Nair

Family	:	Fabaceae
Local name	:	Malayalam-Mutharivalli
Flowering and fruiting period	:	April-June
Distribution	:	Southern Western Ghats
Distribution in kerala	:	Idukki, Kollam, Malapuram, Palakkad, Pathanamthitta, Thiruvananthapuram
Habitat	:	Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, also in sacred groves
IUCN Status	:	vulnerble
Uses	:	bark of the plant used as medicine
Key Botanical Characters. climber with stems slender. Leaves are imparipinnate; leaflets opposite, 9-11 to 16 x 5 cm, ovate-oblong, tapering, rounded at base, membranous; nerves 4 pairs, netveined; axis to 25 cm long. Flowers are borne in panicles at branch-ends and in leaf-axils, branches slender, rusty woolly; bracts and bracteoles minute. Flowers are distantly packed; calyx 3 mm long, bell-shaped, rusty woolly; petals brownish, 5 mm across; standard round, hairless; stamens 9 + 1; anthers uniform; ovary stalkless, few-ovuled. Pods 1