• 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 quinquefolia L.
• Common name : Sen, Sonnette
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests, bunds of rice fields and marshy areas
• Flower, Fruit : August-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, West Godavari district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district
  • Odisha : Sambalpur district, Koraput district, Cuttack district, Khurda district, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram districtVillipuram district, Cuddalore district, Thanjavur district
• Native : Tropical Asia
• World Distribution : South and S.E Asia, Australia, Malesia and Mauritius
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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 quinquefolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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