• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dolichos trilobus subsp. trilobus L.
• Vernacular name : Kattamara, Kattumuthira (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : September-January
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
• World Distribution : Africa, East Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Dolichos falcatus. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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