Herbarium JCB

Crotalaria heyneana Graham ex Wight & Arn.

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 heyneana Wight & Arn.
Habit : Shrub
Habitat : Moist deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests, also in the plains
Comments / notes : Not common, grow as a forest undergrowth.
Flower, Fruit : October-January
Collection Nos : HFP 2337, KFP 4123, HFP 939
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Hassan district, Udupi district, Davanagare district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district, Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills, Kalrayan Hills, Bodamalai Hills (Salem district), Pachamalai Hills (Tiruchirapalli district), Chitteri Hills, Yelagiri Hills (Vellore district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Piranmalai Hills (Sivaganga district), Theerthamalai Hills, Dharmapuri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Gingee Hill (Villipuram district), Javadu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district)
Native : India
Endemism : Southwest India
World Distribution : India
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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 heyneana. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.