• 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) : Crotalaria epunctata Dalzell
• Vernacular name : Banmethi (Hindi); Konola giligichcha (Telugu)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Stream banks of mixed forests
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & Navendu Page
• Collection Date : 27/02/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0547
• Collection Locality : Barbera forests, Khurda district (OD)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Davanagare district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Odisha : Sambalpur district, Ganjam district, Koraput district, Khurda district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - 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=Crotalaria epunctata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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