• 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 prostrata Willd.
• Vernacular name : Serigally gista (Telugu); Vishnukarni (Oria)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Mixed and Sal forest, also moist deciduous forests and in the plains
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills to dry slopes to 750m.
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy, Arun Singh R & Navendu Page
• Collection Date : 25-02-2016; 25-02-2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0506; HJCB-0498
• Collection Locality : Mahanadi Wildlife Sanctuary, Nyagarh district (OD)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, Kurnool district, West Godavari district, Prakasam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Kolar district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Alappuzha district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Kalhandi district, Sambalpur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Tiruchirapalli district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Southeast Asia, Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; 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; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara.
• 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 prostrata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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