- Family : FABACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Fabaceae (Leguminosae)
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Species : Crotalaria retusa
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Crotalaria retusa L.
- Common name : Common Rattle Pod
- Vernacular name : Shanapuspushpi (San.); Khunkhuniyan (Hin.); Gejje gida, Guluguluppahalli (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : KFP 6225, KFP 10899
- Key identification features : A handsome herb with branches furrowed and white-hairy. Leaves are simple, obovate, retuse at apex, glabrous above and silky-hairy beneath. Inflorescence is a many-flowered terminal raceme. Flowers are pretty, 2.5-3 cm, yellow with purple tinge. Pod is stalked with many seeds.
- Habit : Herb
- Native : Asia
- Comments : Frequently seen in waste places.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bidar, Bijapur, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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