• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Indigofera flaccida var. constricta Thw.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Indigofera constricta (Thwaites) Trimen
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collection Nos : Talbot 788, Talbot 3149
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; 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=Indigofera constricta. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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