• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Synonym(s) : Indigofera tenuifolia sensu Rottler ex Wight & Arn. 1834, non Lam. 1789.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Indigofera karnatakana Sanjappa
• Habit : Herb
• Key identification features : Diffuse herb with spreading branches
• Flower, Fruit : June-October
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao; CJ. Saldanha
• Collection Date : 27-11-2014; 07-09-1975
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0225; CJS 18640
• Collection Locality : Sadasivakona, Chittoor district (AP); Bannerghatta National Park, Bangalore district (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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, Karnataka state; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; 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 karnatakana. Downloaded on 4 November 2025.

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