• 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) : Indigastrum parviflorum (Wight & Arn.) Schrire
• Vernacular name : Jhille (Kannada); Bapanga (Telugu)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Comments / notes : In wastelands and along river banks up to 600m.
• Key identification features : Annual sub-shrub
• Flower, Fruit : October-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Guntur district, Anantapur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Dindigul district, Tiruchirapalli district, Krishnagiri district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : Africa, India, Sri Lanka, N. Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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 parviflora. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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