• 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 orixensis Willd.
• Vernacular name : Kadu budde gida (Kannada)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Scrub jungle, open and dry deciduous forests
• Key identification features : Diffuse herb, much branched; pod glabrous and long stalked
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy & Sadasivaiah
• Collection Date : 09/12/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 41970
• Collection Locality : Way to Gollala Guduru, Kadapa district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Kurnool district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Davanagare district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Bengaluru district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Raichur district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Common
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Tiruvannamalai district, Namakkal district, Vellore district, Dharmapuri district
• World Distribution : India, Tropical Africa, Ethiopia
• 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; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
• 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 orixensis. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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