• 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 laevigata Lam.
• Vernacular name : Dodda bangu gida (Kannada)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Disterbed semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Fairly common in deciduous and semi-evergreen forests.
• Key identification features : Small erect undershrub; flowers yellow, axillary racemes; leaves elliptict-oblong
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : India, Madagascar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 laevigata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description