• 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 uniflora Roxb.
• Vernacular name : Chuvannamaneli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Deciduous forests and denuded hillocks
• Key identification features : Prostrate perennial herb
• Flower, Fruit : September-December
• Collection Nos : KFP 4935, KFP 12042
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• 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; 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 uniflora. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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