• 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 coerulea Roxb.
• Common name : Surat Indigo
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Deciduous forests and scrub jungles
• Comments / notes : Occasional along ghats and roadsides.
• Flower, Fruit : November-January
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy
• Collection Date : 13-12-2014; 13-10-2010
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-190; FAP 39555
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Anantapur district (AP); Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Nellore district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chitradurga district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Coimbatore district, Ramanathapuram district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethyopia, Saudi Arabia,
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi ; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
• 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 coerulea. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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