• 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) : Cajanus heynei (Wight & Arn.)Maesen
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cajanus heynei (Wight & Arn.)Maesen
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Key identification features : Slender climber
• Flower, Fruit : October-February
• Collection Nos : Talbot 1835 (MH), KFP 12575
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; 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=Dunbaria heynei. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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