• 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 tenella Benth.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : In rice fields and moist rocky slopes
• Comments / notes : Common on lateritic grassy slopes during rainy season.
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Collection Nos : J.Fernandez 1807 (BLAT), MH 14416, KFP 3390
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Thrissur district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; 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.
• 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 tenella. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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