• 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 willdenowiana DC.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Scrub jungle and roadsides in moist locations
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains and floor of scrub jungles and wasteland.
• Flower, Fruit : November-March
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R & Raja K.Swamy
• Collection Date : 13/09/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0054
• Collection Locality : Along road Alangayam-Vanayambadi, Tiruvannamalai district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district
  • Kerala : Pathanamthitta district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Vellore district, Salem district, Thanjavur district, Tiruchirapalli 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 willdenowiana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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