• 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) : Goniogyna hirta (Willd.) Ali; Hallia hirta Willd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Crotalaria hebecarpa (DC.) Rudd
• Vernacular name : Godhadi (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests, scrub jungles and plains
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Key identification features : Prostrate dichotomously branched herb
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 13/12/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-203
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Nigidi forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Guntur district, Anantapur district, Kurnool district, Kadapa district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district,Dakshina Kannada district, Chitradurga district, Davanagare district, Raichur district, Dharwad district, Bengaluru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : South Asia
• 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; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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 hebecarpa. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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