• 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 heterophyllum Willd.
• Synonym(s) : Desmodium triflorum var. majus Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Desmodium heterophyllum (Willd.) DC.
• Vernacular name : Kudaliya (Hindi); Muntamandu (Telugu); Kuradia gachha, Latkana, Kaan sisna, Lathna (Oria)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Mixed deciduous forests, degraded moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Occasional in forests
• Key identification features : Much branched undershrub with purple flowers
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Puri district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Salem district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indo-China, China, Taiwan, RyuKyu Islands, Bonin, Malesia, Pacific Islands, Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; 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=Desmodium heterophyllum. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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