• 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 speciosa Roth
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Moist and dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : On hills of exposed slopes.
• Key identification features : Leaves silky; flowers yellow in capitate raceme; standard petal silky
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kurnool district, Anantapur district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Vellore district, Salem district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Tiruvannamalai district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; 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.
• 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 speciosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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