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Padal

Stereospermum colais

On the Rajasthan Board's rare and threatened plants listIUCN: Least Concern
Stereospermum colais (Stereospermum colais)

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Scientific name
Stereospermum colais
Family
Bignoniaceae, order Lamiales
Group
Plant
Conservation status
Least Concern

A tall tree with trumpet-like flowers.

  • Spot it Large compound leaves and trumpet flowers.
  • Home Southern forests.
  • Food web Bees visit the flowers.
  • Why it matters Shades forest soil and feeds pollinators.

Read more: Stereospermum colais on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanThe Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board lists it among the rare, endangered and threatened plants of Rajasthan, for southern Rajasthan.[2]
  • RajasthanThe Board gives its local name as Padal.[2]
  • RajasthanThe Board describes it as a tree of the Bignoniaceae family.[2]

Sources

  1. Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. List of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Plants of Rajasthan (55 plants) (government). Official list, published as a PDF.
  2. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  5. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

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