• 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) : Lupinus trifoliatus Rottl. ex Willd.; Crotalaria medicaginea DC. 1825, non Lam. 1786
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Crotalaria trifoliastrum Willd.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests, along roadsides and plains
• Comments / notes : On the sandy banks of water cources
• Key identification features : Flowers yellow in long racemes
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, West Godavari district
  • Kerala : Pathanamthitta district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Keonjhar district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Bhutan
• 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; 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 trifoliastrum. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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