• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Alysicarpus gracilis Edgew.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Alysicarpus bupleurifolius var. gracilis (Edgew.) Baker
• Habit : Herb
• Key identification features : Slender herb with linear-oblong leaves; pod constricted between seed, joints 1-3
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Anantapur district, Kadapa district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Davanagare district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district
• Native : India
• Endemism : India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
• 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=Alysicarpus bupleurifolius var. gracilis. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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