• 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) : Derris heyneana Baker
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Derris thothathrii Bennet
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Key identification features : Climber; stem lenticellate; inflorescence copiously branched
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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 thothathrii. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

Botanical Description