• 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) : Indigofera aspalathoides DC.
• Common name : Wiry Indigo
• Vernacular name : Shiva malli (Kannada); Sivanar vaembu (Tamil); Manneli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Sandy wasteland and scrub forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in plains in gravelly soil on grazing ground and scrub jungles in full sun.
• Key identification features : Speading silvery hairy herb
• Flower, Fruit : June-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Nellore district, Srikakulam district, Chittoor district, West Godavari district
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Cuttack district, Puri district, Khurda district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• 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; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; 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=Indigofera aspalathoides. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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