- Family : FABACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Fabaceae (Leguminosae)
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Species : Tephrosia purpurea
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers.
- Common name : Common Tephrosia, Wild Indigo
- Vernacular name : Sharapunkha (San.); Kolingii, Koggi gida, Sharapunkha (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : KFP 3581, KFP 7761
- Key identification features : Glabrescent erect undershrub. Leaves are even-pinnate. Inflorescence is a many-flowered raceme. Petals pink in colour. Fruit is a pod which is slightly curved.
- Habit : Shrub
- Native : India, Sri Lanka, Old World Tropics
- Comments : Common in open places and along roadsides.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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