- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Synonym(s) : Crotalaria ovalifolia Wall. ex Fyson; Crotalaria bourneae Fyson; Crotalaria conferta Fyson; Crotalaria rubiginosa Willd. var. scabrella (Wight & Arn.) Baker
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Crotalaria scabrella Wight & Arn.
- Vernacular name : Cherukonna (Malayalam)
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Grasslands
- Key identification features : Spreading undershrub, densely grey pubescent; corolla yellow; pod stalked
- Flower, Fruit : September-December
- Collector(s) Name : R. Raghavendra Rao
- Collection Date : 04/10/1970
- Collection Nos : R.R.Rao 970
- Collection Locality : B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district (KA)
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chamarajanagar district, Tumakuru district, Mysuru district
- Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Coimbatore district, Tirunelveli district
- Native : India, Sri Lanka
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; 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 scabrella. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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