• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Flemingia vestita var. nilgheriensis Baker
• Synonym(s) : Flemingia procumbens Wight, auct. non Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Flemingia nilgheriensis (Baker) T.Cooke
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Key identification features : Trailing herb with yellow glands
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district
  • Odisha : Puri district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
• 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=Flemingia nilgheriensis. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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