Herbarium JCB

Atylosia albicans (Wight & Arn.) Benth.

Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
Subfamily : Faboideae
Basionym : Cantharospermum albicans Wight & Arn.
Synonym(s) : Cajanus albicans (Wight & Arn.) Maesen; Cajanus wightii Graham ex Wight & Arn.
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cajanus albicans (Wight & Arn.) Maesen
Vernacular name : Nettavare (Kannada)
Habit : Climbing shrub
Habitat : Deciduous and scrub forests and on road sides
Comments / notes : Occasional on hills up to 1400m. in dry places
Key identification features : Climbing shrub; stem bluish grey
Flower, Fruit : September-April
Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R, Raja K.Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
Collection Date : 27/11/2014
Collection Nos : HJCB-0233
Collection Locality : Sadasivakona, Chittoor district (AP)
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Dharmapuri district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of 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=Atylosia albicans. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.