• 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 ritchiei Sanjappa
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Desmodiastrum racemosum var. rotundifolium (Baker) A.Pramanik & Thoth.
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Occasional among grasses
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
• Collection Date : 24-11-2018
• Collection Nos : Talbot 2776 (BSI); HJCB-1767
• Collection Locality : Devikulam, Idukki district, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Vijayapura (Bijapur) district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• 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; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India; Herbarium specimen from Devikulam, Idukki district, Kerala.
• 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 rotundifolium. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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