Herbarium JCB

Geissaspis cristata Wight & Arn.

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) : Geissaspis cristata Wight & Arn.
Habit : Herb
Habitat : Grassy patches in moist open places
Comments / notes : Common in moist places.
Key identification features : Slender herb with long ciliate imbricate bracts
Flower, Fruit : July-January
Collection Nos : KFP 3712, KFP 12359
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district
Native : India
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Geissaspis cristata. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.