• 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) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Montane scrub jungle
• Key identification features : Slender racemes
• Flower, Fruit : June-December
• Collector(s) Name : M.C Lukose; Sunny Mathew
• Collection Locality : Koodakkadu, Marayur, Idukki District; Adukkam, Kottayam District
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Tirunelveli district, Madurai district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Gamble 1915. Fl.Mad.Pre. Vol.1: 298; 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 subperfoliata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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