• 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 medicaginea var. neglecta (Wight & Arn.) Baker
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Scrub jungle
• Key identification features : Prostrate herb; racemes 6–9-flowered
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Collector(s) Name : K.Sankara Rao, Raja K.Swamy, Arun Singh R & Siddharth
• Collection Date : 26/10/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-117
• Collection Locality : Way to Talakona forest, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Prakasam district, Anantapur district, Kadapa district, Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Ballari district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Mysuru district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Krishnagiri district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
• World Distribution : India, Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; 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; 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 medicaginea var. neglecta. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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