Herbarium JCB

Indigofera hirsuta L.

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 hirsuta L.
Common name : Hairy Indigo, Rough Hairy Indigo
Vernacular name : Adavi mentee (Telugu)
Habit : Undershrub
Habitat : Plains to high altitude hills
Comments / notes : On plains to 600m, sometimes gregarious on fallow fields and wastelands.
Key identification features : Pubescent herb
Flower, Fruit : July-February
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Davanagare district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, The Nilgiri district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Pudukkottai district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
World Distribution : Paleotopics
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; 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.; 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; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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 hirsuta. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.