• 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 hirsuta Willd.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Open deciduous forest, also in grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy & Arun Singh R
• Collection Date : 28/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-153
• Collection Locality : Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Guntur district, Kurnool district, Vishakapatnam district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
• World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Myanmar
• 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; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
• 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 hirsuta. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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