• 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 linifolia (L.f.) Retz.
• Habit : Herb
• Key identification features : Silvery canescent herbs; 2-edged with short internodes. Raceme 1-4 flowered.
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Ballari district, Bidar district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; 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 linifolia var. campbellii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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