• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Calopogonium mucunoides Desv.
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Forest plantations, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Sometimes grown as covercrop in rubber plantations, also runs wild from intoduction.
• Key identification features : A pubescent climber
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Collector(s) Name : K.P.Sreenath & P.Prakash
• Collection Nos : KFP 5986
• Collection Locality : East of Nagarahole (Kodagu)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
• Native : Pantropical
• World Distribution : Tropical Asia, southern India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Calopogonium mucunoides. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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