• 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 linifolia L.f.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist open places and wasteland
• Comments / notes : Common among grasses
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Uttara Kannada district, Belagavi district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
• World Distribution : Tropical Asia to Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Gamble, 1918. Fl. Pres. Madr. Vol. 1. pp. 294; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
• 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 linifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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