• 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) : Dumasia congesta Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dumasia villosa DC.
• Vernacular name : Pullooran-charadu-kodi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : On hills above 1400m on thickets by Shola border
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Key identification features : A slender climber; flowers yellow; pod velvety
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Tropical Africa, temperate and Tropical Asia
• 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; 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.
• 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=Dumasia villosa. Downloaded on 4 November 2025.

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