• 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 ramosissima Roxb.
• Common name : Unifoliate Rattle wort
• Vernacular name : Thonasi thoppalu (Kannada)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Plains, scrub jungles and foothills of deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Between quartzite rocks in open forests
• Key identification features : Woody herb, villous hairs. Flowers in racemes, with yellow oil bracts and calyx
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Anantapur district, West Godavari district, Guntur district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Chitradurga district, MDY, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Ramanathapuram district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India
• 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; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; 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; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; 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 ramosissima. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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