• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Galega colutea Burm.f.
• Synonym(s) : Indigofera viscosa Lam.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Indigofera colutea (Burm.f.) Merr.
• Vernacular name : Antu kogge (Kannada); Naaikadugu (Tamil)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Dry deciduous and scrub jungles, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Occasional in plains to 900m. Common in wastelands.
• Key identification features : Viscous pubescent herb
• Flower, Fruit : September-March
• Collector(s) Name : K.Sankara Rao, Arun Singh R & Raja K.Swamy
• Collection Date : 19/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0188
• Collection Locality : Palamner forest range, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Anantapur district, Nellore district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Mysuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Odisha : Gajapati district, Sambalpur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : Paleotropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; 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; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
• 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 colutea. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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