-  Family : FABACEAE 
 
-  Family (As per The Plant List) : Fabaceae (Leguminosae) 
 
-  Subfamily : Faboideae 
 
-  Species : Pseudarthria viscida  
 
-  Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pseudarthria viscida (L.) Wight & Arn. 
 
-  Common name : Sticky pod weed 
 
-  Vernacular name : Salaparni (San.) 
 
-  Collection Nos : KFP 3653, KFP 12333 
 
-  Key identification features : A small perennial herb with a prostrate stem. Leaves are alternate, compound, with 3 leaflets, hairy and rhomboidal. Flowers are small, in terminal or axillary fascicles. Pod is linear, flat and hairy. 
 
-  Habit : Shrub 
 
-  Native : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Taiwan 
 
-  Comments : Common in shady places. 
 
-  Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE) 
 
-  Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bidar, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada 
 
-  Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; 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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