<p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Fabaceae&amp;w=91314344@N00">Fabaceae</a> (pea, or legume family) » <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Millettiapinnata&amp;w=91314344@N00&amp;m=tags">Millettia pinnata</a></i>
</p><p><b>pon-GAY-mee-uh</b> -- Latinized form of Malabar name പൊങ്ങം <i>pongam</i> for <i>Pongamia pinnata</i>
<b>mil-LET-ee-uh</b> -- named for J A Millett, French botanist
<b>pin-NAY-tuh</b> -- feather-shaped
</p><p><b>commonly known as</b>: Indian beech tree, karum tree, oil tree, pongam tree, poonga-oil tree, seashore mempari • <b>Assamese</b>: karchaw • <b>Bengali</b>: করঞ্জ karanja • <b>Gujarati</b>: કરંજ karanja • <b>Hindi</b>: करंज karanj, पापड़ papar, सुखचैन sukhchain, व्याघ्रनखी vyaghranakhi • <b>Kannada</b>: ಹೊಮ್ಗೆ homge • <b>Konkani</b>: करंजी karamji • <b>Malayalam</b>: പൊങ്ങം pongam, ഉങ്ങ് ung • <b>Marathi</b>: करज karaja, करंज karanja • <b>Oriya</b>: koranjo • <b>Prakrit</b>: करंज karamja • <b>Sanskrit</b>: करञ्ज karañja, नक्तमाला naktamala • <b>Tamil</b>: புன்கு punku, புன்னை punnai, நத்தம் nattam, நீர்ப்புன்கு nir-p-punku, தட்டைப்புன்கு tattai-p-punku • <b>Telugu</b>: కానుగు kanugu, కరంజము karañjamu, కోవి kovi, వ్యాఘ్రనఖము vyaghra-nakhamu
</p><p><b>Native to</b>: s China, e &amp; s-e Asia, Indian subcontinent, n Australia, w Pacific; naturalized / cultivated elsewhere
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<b>References</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/slides/Pongam%20Tree.html">Flowers of India</a> • <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb/6.00/taxa/3170.shtml">ILDIS</a> • <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pongamia_pinnata" class="extiw" title="en:Pongamia pinnata">Wikipedia</a> • <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?418408">NPGS / GRIN</a>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/91314344@N00">Dinesh Valke</a> from Thane, India
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7211125188/">Karanja (Bengali: করঞ্জ)</a>