• 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) : Astragalus biflorus L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Crotalaria angulata Mill.
• Common name : Rabbit Bells
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous and dry deciduous forests, scrub jungles, grasslands.
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Anantapur district, Kadapa district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, Ramanathapuram district, Thanjavur district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Tiruchirapalli district
• World Distribution : Indo-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=Crotalaria angulata. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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