• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Brachypterum benthamii Thwaites
• Synonym(s) : Derris paniculata Benth.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Derris benthamii (Thwaites) Thwaites
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Slender glabrous climber; inflorescence rusty pubescent
• Flower, Fruit : December-May
• Collection Nos : KFP 1024, KFP 6924, CJS 16532, CS 11687
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Udupi district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Derris benthamii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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