• Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
• Basionym : Cassia kleinii Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Chamaecrista kleinii (Wight & Arn.) V.Singh
• Common name : Klein's Dwarf Senna
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests, amongst grasses in bare slopes, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Hill slops up to 1500m
• Key identification features : Decumbent herb
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kadapa district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Kanyakumari district, Tirunelveli district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Chamaecrista kleinii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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