• 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) : Crotalaria evolvuloides Wight ex Wight & Arn. var. acutifolia Gamble
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not found in The Plant List
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests, often in grassy patches
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 800m and on rocky cliffs exposed to sun.
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Mysuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Khurda district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Dindigul district, Madurai district, Dharmapuri district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Tiruchirapalli district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; 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 evolvuloides. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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