• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Synonym(s) : Canavalia ensiformis var. mollis (Wight & Arn.) Baker; Canavalia virosa var. mollis (Wight & Arn.) Gamble
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Canavalia mollis Wight & Arn.
• Vernacular name : Kaattu avarai (Tamil)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : On hills and forest borders above 1000m.
• Key identification features : Leaves densely hairy
• Flower, Fruit : October-April
• Collector(s) Name : S.R. Ramesh & S.B. Manohar
• Collection Date : 26/10/1978
• Collection Nos : KFP 3891
• Collection Locality : Bedaguli, B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chamarajanagar district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Indo-China, Malesia
• 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=Canavalia mollis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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