• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Pongamia canarensis Dalzell
• Synonym(s) : Brachypterum canarense (Dalzell) Dalzell
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Derris canarensis (Dalzell) Baker
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Key identification features : Climbing shrub with white flowers
• Flower, Fruit : September-January
• Collection Nos : KFP 12793, HFP 1569
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• 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; 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 canarensis. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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