- 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 14 November 2024.
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