• 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 14 November 2024.

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