• 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 styracifolium Osbeck
• Synonym(s) : Desmodium retroflexum (L.) DC.; Hedysarum retroflexum L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Desmodium styracifolium (Osbeck) Merr.
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Key identification features : Large shrub with purple flowers
• Flower, Fruit : March-October
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, China
• 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; 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 styracifolium. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

Botanical Description