- 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) : Desmodium polycarpum (Poir.) DC. var. fischeri Gamble p.p.; Desmodium rufescens sensu Wight & Arn., non DC. 1825.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Desmodium ferrugineum Thwaites
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Moist deciduous forests, grasslands and montane scrub jungles
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 1000m by shola border and stream banks
- Key identification features : Branches and foliage silvery
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Navendu Page, K. Sankara Rao & Navendu Page; Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
- Collection Date : 23/03/2016; 24-11-2018
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0584; HJCB-1797
- Collection Locality : Shevaroy temple road, Shevaroy Hills, Salem district (TN); Munnar, Idukki district, Kerala
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Malappuram district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Idukki district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Namakkal district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district
- Native : India, Sri Lanka
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Herbarium specimen from Munnar, Idukki district, Kerala (not scanned)
- 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=Desmodium ferrugineum. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.
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