• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Carpopogon atropurpureum Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mucuna atropurpurea (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.
• Common name : Cow Itch
• Vernacular name : Turibeeli balli (Kannada); Sirupunaikali (Tamil); Vhainswalivel (Hindi); Chinthelly, Naikorana (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Dry deciduous, evergreen and shola forests
• Comments / notes : On hills up to 1200m by river banks
• Key identification features : Pod two seeded
• Flower, Fruit : December-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Tirunelveli district, Coimbatore district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Malaccas
• 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; 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=Mucuna atropurpurea. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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