- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Hedysarum gangeticum L.
- Synonym(s) : Hedysarum collinum Roxb.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Desmodium gangeticum (L.) DC.
- Vernacular name : Salpan, Salvan, Sarivon, Salwan (Hindi); Bennachhuga (Kannada); Gitanarum, Yitanarum, Kolaku ponna (Telugu); Saloporni, Salpheni, Chokkosondo (Oria); Salaparni (Sanskrit); Salvan (Marathi); Orila, Pulladi (Malayalam)
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Moist and dry deciduous forests and forests plantations
- Comments / notes : In plains to 1400 m on floor of wooded places, open deciduous forests and in coconut grooves, also found as forest undergrowth
- Key identification features : Unifoliolate leaves
- Flower, Fruit : October-January
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy & B. Sadasivaiah
- Collection Date : 19/06/2010
- Collection Nos : FAP 39502
- Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Kurnool district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : Ballari district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Sambalpur district, Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- World Distribution : Paleotropics
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
- 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 gangeticum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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