• 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 grahamiana Wight & Arn.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Grasslands, montane scrub jungle
• Key identification features : Pubescent undershrub; flowers yellow
• Collector(s) Name : M.C Lukose
• Collection Locality : Peermade, Idukki District
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Kottayam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Tirunelveli district, Madurai district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Gamble 1915. Fl. Mad. Pre. vol.1: 301.; 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 grahamiana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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